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Brevard College at a Glance

Brevard College is consistently recognized as one of the best liberal arts colleges. The College’s focus on experiential learning, small class sizes, and location in the mountains of Western North Carolina, near Asheville, makes Brevard a top choice college for students around the world.

When you visit Brevard, you'll know immediately if you see yourself here.

3:1

Student to Waterfall Ratio

Average
Class Size

703

Students Enrolled

A Distinctive Classroom Experience

Brevard College students define their experience as engaging, challenging, and personal. Faculty know their students, and know them well.

Brevard’s mission, rooted in experiential teaching and learning, gives students an opportunity to test and apply what they’ve have learned. Brevard College students receive a degree and an experiential resume.

Brevard College is consistently recognized as one of the best liberal arts colleges in the U. S.

Experience Small Class Sizes

Develop Relationships With Professors

Your Professors Know You

Learn Through Experience

Experiential liberal arts gives you the opportunity to learn through experience.

All majors embrace Brevard's mission rooted in experiential teaching and learning. In your history class, you'll learn historical events by reacting to the past. In your business classes, you'll write a business and marketing plan. Learning at Brevard means connecting knowledge to action.

For students of the sciences, we have relationships with the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, Pisgah National Forest, and DuPont State Forest.

You'll learn in the classroom and outside the classroom. Brevard College students often say that classrooms at Brevard have no walls.

Performing and visual arts students will enjoy Brevard's love of the arts. The Porter Center is the best performance venue in the South (and it's your classroom). Plus, the world-renowned Brevard Music Center provides countless opportunities for Brevard students.

When you graduate, you'll leave Brevard College with a degree and an experiential resume of projects you've completed, research you've conducted, and presentations you've given.

Experiential Learning

Brevard College classrooms are student centered and small with an average of 15 students.

Course content is connected, intentionally, to direct experience. Faculty often use content to tackle important issues. You'll learn to how to take what you've learned and act.

Faculty at Brevard will also develop your ability to work collaboratively in teams, think critically, and tackle tough problems—skills needed in the world of work.

Faculty create active learning experiences that make learning challenging (and fun)!

Brevard College will develop your knowledge and understanding of your chosen subject. Faculty will guide focused reflection on your experiences and help you identify learning that applies to your future endeavors.

You, essentially, learn how to learn. Experience becomes a teacher throughout your life, yet your ability to reflect on that experience, a skill learned at Brevard College, will make that experience meaningful and applicable.

You will become a life-long learning with the skills needed to succeed in the 21st century.

Brevard College produces graduates who seek to change their communities and change the world.

Highly Engaged Faculty

Brevard College’s faculty represent active and productive scholars, performers, researchers, and artists.

Most of them, about 80%, have earned the highest degree in their field.

They represent countless disciplines and research interests, and they choose to dedicate their careers to teaching at Brevard College, which offers them opportunities to have a meaningful impact on the lives of students.

You'll get to know them well. And they'll know you. If you miss class, they'll notice. If you come to class unprepared, they'll notice.

You'll see them outside of class, too. Be prepared to see your faculty in town, at a performance, athletic event, or on the trails.

This mix of intellectuals, artists, and outdoor lovers creates a campus culture that embraces active learning, adventure, and deep intellectual relationships.

You'll connect knowledge to action.

You're a big fish in a small pond.

Brevard College is a small campus in a small mountain town. Students, faculty, staff, and residents of Brevard value community, service, the outdoors, and the arts.

Your faculty will know you. President Joyce and his wife, Lynne, will know you. The Mayor of Brevard will know you. You'll develop life-long friendships.

The small community gives you have the opportunity to engage with campus leaders, your peers, and a community that's full of retired CEOs, college professors, performers, musicians, scientists, artists and countless other professions who seek to work with you.

It's the perfect setting for a college dedicated to experiential liberal arts.

Your professors are tough teachers who care.

Student success is the goal.

Distinct Mountain Location

As a Brevard student, regardless of your academic program, you’ll get your hands dirty in nearby Pisgah National Forest, DuPont State Forest, Bracken Mountain Recreation Area, Gorges State Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Cradle of Forestry.

You’ll expand your experiential resume in the Town of Brevard, which offers exceptional service-learning, internships, music, and a unique cultural atmosphere.

Brevard is certainly a picturesque place to live and an outstanding place to learn, study, serve, and grow.

The Land of the Waterfalls

Discover Brevard, North Carolina

Brevard College operates in the National Forest Under a Special Use Permit.

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Recognized Honors:

Brevard College is consistently recognized as one of the best liberal arts colleges. The College’s focus on experiential learning, small class sizes, and location the mountains of Western North Carolina near Asheville makes Brevard a top choice college for students around the world.

Brevard College, One Brevard College Drive, Brevard, NC 28712 | 1-828-884-8332
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