Bard College

Bard College Bard seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment civic participation.

Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; gradu

ate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 160-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.

The Galloping Cure, an opera by Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli, was featured on the BBC’s Radio 4: Front Row. A col...
09/03/2026

The Galloping Cure, an opera by Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli, was featured on the BBC’s Radio 4: Front Row. A collaboration between Mazzoli and author and Bard Fiction Prize winner Karen Russell, the Edinburgh International Festival described it as “visually stunning and emotionally gripping."

Composer Missy Mazzoli on her opera The Galloping Cure.

Bard College was ranked in the top five in the “Professors Get High Marks” category of the Princeton Review’s rankings o...
09/02/2026

Bard College was ranked in the top five in the “Professors Get High Marks” category of the Princeton Review’s rankings of colleges and universities 2026. The ranking is based on how strongly students agree with the statement, "Professors are interesting and bring their material to life."

Bard College has been ranked in the top five of the Princeton Review’s 2026 list of colleges and universities for positive student sentiment about faculty. Members of the Bard faculty include Guggenheim, Pulitzer, and McArthur Genius Grant award winners, and they have written critically acclaimed ...

Meet the Acting President of Bard College Jonathan Becker, who shared his thoughts on his almost 30 years with Bard and ...
09/01/2026

Meet the Acting President of Bard College Jonathan Becker, who shared his thoughts on his almost 30 years with Bard and why he's excited to lead the College now.

Bard's Acting President, Jonathan Becker, answered some questions a...

Ata Ullah, a political science student in the Bard Global Degree program and Rohingya youth advocate, wrote an article d...
08/31/2026

Ata Ullah, a political science student in the Bard Global Degree program and Rohingya youth advocate, wrote an article documenting the grassroots journalism taking shape inside Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the world’s largest refugee settlement where he lives. His account challenges the narrative of refugees as voiceless, revealing a generation of youth translators, facilitators, and archivists building their own information ecosystem.

In Cox's Bazar, Rohingya youth turn smartphones into lifelines, learning, reporting and fighting misinformation. In a place shaped by struggle, their voices are quietly rebuilding dialogue and hope.

Bard College’s Division of Languages and Literature announces the appointment of Tara Westover as visiting writer in res...
08/28/2026

Bard College’s Division of Languages and Literature announces the appointment of Tara Westover as visiting writer in residence beginning in the fall 2026 semester. Westover is an American historian whose memoir Educated was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN America’s Jean Stein Book Award.

Bard College’s Division of Languages and Literature is pleased to announce the appointment of Tara Westover as visiting writer in residence. Her appointment begins in the fall 2026 semester. Westover is an American historian and memoirist whose first book, Educated, a memoir of her upbringing in r...

Jonathan Becker, acting president at Bard College, has published a New York Times Opinion piece about student voting rig...
08/19/2026

Jonathan Becker, acting president at Bard College, has published a New York Times Opinion piece about student voting rights. “American colleges and universities must not be neutral on the issues of democracy and civic participation,” Becker writes. “College leaders should find resources to promote and defend the most foundational of democratic rights.”

American democracy and American higher education are inextricable.

Congratulations to the ten Bard student-athletes named Intercollegiate Tennis Association awardees for the academic year...
08/13/2026

Congratulations to the ten Bard student-athletes named Intercollegiate Tennis Association awardees for the academic year 2025-26. Maria Castro ’29, Catherine Chapel ’29, Lola Greene ’29, Patricia Santos ’28, Jesse Radzik ’28, and Paige Houghton ’26, Blake Kendall ’29, Peter Trimble ’29, Faisal Jones ’26, and Thanasis Kostikas ’26 were acknowledged for individual excellence, and the mens’ and womens’ teams were recognized for maintaining a 3.2 grade point average.

The Bard women’s and men’s tennis teams were recognized as Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic teams, recognizing their excellence in sports and academics. Players Catherine Chapel ’29, Faisal Jones ’26, Patricia Santos ’28, Jesse Radzik ’28, Blake Kendall ’29, Lola G...

All four of the residence buildings of Bard College’s North Campus Residence Complex have achieved the Passive House Cer...
08/11/2026

All four of the residence buildings of Bard College’s North Campus Residence Complex have achieved the Passive House Certification from the Passive House Institute, whose certification is recognized worldwide as one of the most demanding and respected standards in building science.

All four of the residence buildings of Bard College’s North Campus Residence Complex have achieved the Passive House Certification from the Passive House Institute (PHI), an organization that sets rigorous energy-efficient building standards. Certification from PHI is recognized worldwide as one o...

Acting President of Bard Jonathan Becker delivered the commencement address at Kyiv School of Economics’s graduation cer...
08/10/2026

Acting President of Bard Jonathan Becker delivered the commencement address at Kyiv School of Economics’s graduation ceremony. “It was incredibly meaningful to me to come back to Ukraine at this challenging time and meet bright, motivated students who, despite a myriad of challenges, want to shape their country’s future,” Becker said.

On August 1, 2026, Jonathan Becker, acting president of Bard College, delivered the commencement address at Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)’s graduation ceremony, at KSE Obolon in Kyiv. “It was incredibly meaningful to me to, after thirty years, come back to Ukraine at this challenging time and m...

Hudson Valley Community Air Network, led by Bard College’s Community Sciences Lab at the Center for Environmental Scienc...
08/07/2026

Hudson Valley Community Air Network, led by Bard College’s Community Sciences Lab at the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities, was featured in Chronogram magazine in an article about ongoing efforts to track and trace pollution in the air of the Hudson Valley region.

The Hudson Valley has long been known for its fresh air. Until the air changes. Air pollution does not always arrive as an orange sky. It can come from traffic, industry, cooking, a neighbor’s woodstove, or the fire pit burning a few backyards away.

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