Our Locations
Bard's historic main campus is located along the Hudson River in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. This rural setting is home to Bard's undergraduate program and many Bard institutes. Satellite campuses from New York City to St. Petersburg offer students many additional opportunities to learn.
Civic Engagement
Bard College is committed to forging connections between liberal education and democracy. Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement promotes and sustains projects that link students, faculty, and administrators with the most important issues facing society.
Sustainability at Bard
Bard engages in sustainability efforts on multiple fronts. The College offers academic programs in environmental policy and engages students in regional and national sustainability efforts. The work of the Bard community is taking the Annandale campus closer to its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2035.
Diversity at Bard
From Hannah Arendt to Chinua Achebe, Bard College has historically been a sanctuary from ethnic, political, religious, and other forms of intolerance. We embody this legacy today with a strong investment in both local and global initiatives, from our Center for Civic Engagement to the Bard Prison Initiative and High School Early Colleges, as well as with our programs in Bishkek, Berlin, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, and St. Petersburg.
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At Bard, diversity is an ongoing practice: we embrace plurality, respect divergent viewpoints, and are committed to understanding the rich spectrum of experiences that comprise our community. We firmly believe in upholding the value of critical thought and ethical engagement that this process necessarily demands. To accomplish this mission, we are dedicated to generating dialogue that fosters respect and collaboration between people from a wide field of backgrounds, talents, values, and passions.
Building upon a culture of innovation and intellectual rigor, we envision diversity to include and look beyond traditional categories of difference. In an increasingly intertwined and rapidly changing world, we are dedicated to a rigorous examination of the institutions and structures that sustain inequality based on divisive ideas about difference. Above all, we maintain an ongoing commitment to decreasing the distance between these ideals and our everyday realities.
Striking architecture—both contemporary and classic—defines Bard's campus at our main location in the Hudson River Valley of upstate New York.
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Bard provides a challenging academic program, a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas and access to world-class scholarship and research.
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Founded in 1860 as St. Stephen’s College for men, Bard has transformed and grown over the years. Since the 1970s, the College has built on its academic legacy, creating new programs in a changing educational landscape.
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Bard students are ambitious, creative, and curious. They come from across the country and around the world to create a unique learning community.
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Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus.
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