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Academics & Faculty. Choose from 48 departments and programs, 50 majors, plus the Independent Program (interdisciplinary “design your own” major). The Vassar faculty is a diverse community of scholars, artists, writers, scientists, musicians, and thinkers.
Vassar College ( / ˈvæsər / VASS-ər) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college became coeducational in 1969.
Vassar College—located in New York’s scenic Hudson Valley—is an independent, coeducational, residential liberal arts college, which fosters intellectual openness and lively exploration through its widely varied course offerings.
Vassar College is a private institution that was founded in 1861. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,459 (fall 2022), and the campus size is 1,000 acres.
Fabulous mansions of the Gilded Age, quaint river towns, unparalleled hiking and climbing sites in the Catskills and the Shawangunks, world-class art museums—the valley is a national treasure. Poughkeepsie, Vassar’s hometown, is half way between Albany, the state capitol, and New York City.
In 1920, Martha Beckwith became the first person to hold a chair in Folklore at any college or university in the country. The Folklore Foundation, established at Vassar with an anonymous donation by the naturalist, Annie Alexander, was an unprecedented institution. With its establishment, Vassar College suddenly became a center of research in ...
Susan Babson Young passed away comfortably of natural causes at her home in Sheffield, Ma on January 14, 2024. She was born in Boston on June 22, 1939 to David L. and Katherine L. Babson. Susan was raised in Wellesley Hills, MA, and graduated from Vassar College in 1961.
