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Paul Smith’s College is a private college located in Paul Smiths, New York. It is a small institution with an enrollment of 760 undergraduate students. Admissions is somewhat competitive as the Paul Smith’s College acceptance rate is 73%. Popular majors include Wildlife and Fisheries Management, Forestry, and Natural Resources Conservation and Management. Graduating 51% of students, Paul Smith’s College alumni go on to earn a starting salary of $29,600.
Paul Smith’s College is a private institution that was founded in 1946. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 745, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 14,200 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Paul Smith’s College’s ranking in the 2020 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Colleges North, #20. Its tuition and fees are $28,452.
When it comes to cookie-cutter colleges, Paul Smith’s is anything but. In fact, we’re the only 4-year college inside the boundaries of the world-famous “forever wild” Adirondacks.
Students at Paul Smith’s College experience a hands-on education that combines proven career training with a meaningful exploration of self, society and the earth:
- if you’re a forestry major, you’ll play a role in the sustainable management of the college’s 14,000-acre property
- if you’re a fisheries and wildlife science major, you will learn to tag and track different species
- if you’re an entrepreneurial business studies major, you will write a working business plan for a local operation
Living and learning here requires a special kind of student – someone who values the abundance of our natural landscape and embraces our spirit of creative self-reliance. We call ourselves Smitties. Sounds like you? Let’s talk!
The student-faculty ratio at Paul Smith’s College is 12:1, and the school has 57.9 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Paul Smith’s College include: Natural Resources and Conservation; Personal and Culinary Services; Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies; Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies; and Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 73 percent.
