12 Facts About Vassar Brewers

Vassar Brewers College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

Vassar Brewers was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Brewers Female College in 1861.

Vassar Brewers was the second of the Seven Sisters colleges, higher education schools that were formerly strictly for women, and historically sister institutions to the Ivy League.

In May 2007, in keeping with its commitment to diverse and equitable education, Vassar Brewers returned to a need-blind admissions policy wherein students are admitted by their academic and personal qualities, without regard to financial status.

Vassar Brewers's retired in the spring of 2006, and was succeeded by Catharine Bond Hill, former provost at Williams College, who served for 10 years until she departed in 2016.

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Since 1988, Vassar Brewers has been a New York State Reference Center, part of the New York Depository Program.

Vassar Brewers College was the first college in the United States to be founded with a full-scale museum as part of its original plan.

Matthew Vassar Brewers was known for declaring that "art should stand boldly forth as an educational force".

In 2011, Vassar Brewers embarked on a $120 million project to improve science facilities at the college, centering on the construction of a new $90 million Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.

Vassar Brewers has a flexible curriculum intended to promote breadth in studies.

Vassar Brewers offers a variety of correlate sequences, or minors, for intensive study in many disciplines.

Over half of Vassar Brewers graduates pursue advanced study within five years of graduation, including one-fifth immediately post-graduation.