Students pose with Indie during move in.
Top view of the beautiful Sweet Briar College campus.
Two students enjoy time in their dorm room.
Students studying in the Mary Helen Cochran Library.
Sanjita Pokhrel ’25 measures the pressure of a soda can using a strain gauge and wheatstone bridge. (Credit: Sweet Briar College)
Members of the Class of 2024 celebrate during Commencement.
Ariel Hullender ’25 studies fungicide and its impact on common milkweed.
Where…
- 2,847 acres in Amherst, Va.
- 5.8 acres of land per student
- 22 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
- 26,000-square-foot greenhouse
Women…
- 441 students from 35 states and 14 other countries
- Student-Faculty Ratio: 8:1
- Average Class Size: 10
- 19% of students identify as minority
Lead…
- 89% of applicants admitted to veterinary school over the last 15 years, including 100% admittance rate for 11 of those years
- 80% complete internships (national average 50%)
- 37% hold leadership positions
- 60% complete research projects with faculty (national average 20%)
- 40% study abroad (national average 20%)
Accolades
- Sweet Briar has one of the only two ABET-accredited engineering programs at a women’s college in the country
- Our chapter of Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society is notable because only 10% of U.S. colleges and universities have one
- Forbes’ Top Colleges and Kiplinger’s Best College Values for 2019
- The Princeton Review Best Colleges: Southeastern Region for 2020
Our Students
- 3.68 average high school GPA
- 23% are Presidential Scholars
- 30% are Dean’s Scholars
- 33% are Pell Grant Recipients
- 33% are athletes and/or riders
- 47% are from Virginia
Rankings
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U.S. News & World Report:
- Most Innovative Liberal Arts Colleges
- Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
- Top Performer on Social Mobility
- Included in the Forbes list of Private Colleges and Liberal Arts Universities
- Included in the Washington Monthly list of Liberal Arts Colleges
