Vermont College

college, Northfield, Vermont, United States

Also known as: Newbury Seminary

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Vermont College is a non-military institution that is part of Norwich University, a private university in Northfield, Vermont. Norwich University, founded in 1819, is the oldest private military college in the United States. Vermont College offers undergraduate degree programs for working adults as commuter programs. It was originally founded in 1834 as Newbury Seminary and merged with Norwich University in 1972.1

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…in Northfield and the nonmilitary Vermont College in Montpelier; there is also a branch campus in Brattleboro. All Northfield campus students, whether in the military program (the Corps of Cadets) or not, enroll in the same undergraduate curriculum in architecture and art, mathematics and science, business and management, the humanities,…
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…in Northfield and the nonmilitary Vermont College in Montpelier; there is also a branch campus in Brattleboro. All Northfield campus students, whether in the military program (the Corps of Cadets) or not, enroll in the same undergraduate curriculum in architecture and art, mathematics and science, business and management, the humanities,…
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