Explore Your Passion

Our Upside-Down Curriculum Gets You Doing What You Love Starting On Day 1

At Champlain, it's all about you. It's about your passion—finding it, focusing it and nurturing it by creating academic, professional and personal opportunities for growth. Here, you start exploring courses in your major—the topics and issues you're most passionate about—in your first semester.

Our multifaceted approach to academics provides the perfect environment to cultivate your passion for learning. The Champlain experience encompasses the academic, professional and practical knowledge you'll need to grow personally and professionally, and thrive in an ever-changing world.

At Champlain, you'll become a well-educated thinker with superior communication skills. You'll develop leadership capabilities that will serve you for a lifetime. Extensive internships in the beautiful city of Burlington, Vermont—and beyond—take you out into the field. And our international programs take you out into the world.

Finding and pursuing your passion at Champlain will take you further than you ever imagined you could go, but it's not a journey you take alone: Our close-knit community of educators, administrators and fellow students will support you every step of the way.

Experience the Power of a Personal Education

• Our majors & minors link directly to the professions with the greatest potential for future opportunities.
• Get started taking classes in your major on Day 1 with the Upside-Down Curriculum.
• The Core curriculum is designed to prepare you to be an intellectual leader.
• The Life Experience & Action Dimension (LEAD) will help you develop practical, meaningful life skills that will be used throughout your lifetime.
• Visit our award-winning library, the Miller Information Commons.
• Explore Champlain Abroad, our international campuses in Montreal, Canada and Dublin, Ireland.
• Live in our stunning Victorian-era mansion residence halls.
• Discover Burlington, Vermont.
• Learn more about Champlain College.