You Contain Multitudes.
So Should Your Education.
Design Your Education, Shape the World.
The world needs multi-talented and hybrid thinkers. Those who challenge the status quo and imagine new possibilities. That’s the Bennington Plan.
Design Your Bennington Plan
Pursue High-Profile Internships Every Year.
Real-world experience has been built into a Bennington education since the beginning. We call it Field Work Term, and it means you're guaranteed not one or two but four internships. Every year you spend six weeks working off campus. This is another reason Bennington graduates earn such high marks from employers: they are truly experienced by the time they graduate and have built a valuable resume as well as earning a degree.
During the winter, Shloka Shah '25 completed a Field Work Term experience as a Creative Development Intern at Roy Kapur Films in Mumbai, India.
Devan Spiro '27 completed a Field Work Term experience at SoHo Photo Gallery, one of New York City's oldest cooperative nonprofit art gallery spaces.
Jacqueline Walsh '26 completed a Field Work Term experience interning with the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter.
Student Experience
Find your people and engage in an inclusive, vibrant campus culture. You’ll do this from day one in the dining hall, houses, in clubs and organizations, in the library and workshops, at events and beyond.
Student Voices
Hear from current students about the Bennington Plan and what they love most about the College.
While Bennington encourages intellectual exploration, I still have space to hone in on the technical requirements for graduate school.
Shlesha Pradhan ’24
Science
The Plan is a great learning experience, because once you get out of school, you have to develop your own plan committee in life.
Sawyer London '24
Visual Arts
The voice here is very strong. And that is what I want to take: to be so passionate about my morals and what I believe in.
Alisha Bade Shrestha ’23
Literature
Connect with Your Own Faculty Team
Plan to be taken seriously and to be encouraged by your professors—stellar faculty who are shaping the fields you're interested in. Bennington's unique model of student-faculty collaboration—your own team of faculty committed to you and your ideas—is why 95% of Bennington graduates say faculty encourage them to pursue their goals, compared with 22% of graduates nationally.
Jenny Boully
Jenny Boully is the author of seven books, most recently, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life. Her first book, The Body: An Essay, is regarded as a canonical text in experimental essays, poetic prose, and imaginative form.
Michael Wimberly
Michael Wimberly is an award-winning musician, composer, and sound designer who excavates and explores music of the African Diaspora and improvisation. His latest album is Afrofuturism.
Blake Jones
Blake Jones's research integrates Endocrinology, Behavioral Ecology, Cognitive Science, Ornithology, and Conservation Biology.
Join an Inclusive Community on a 440-Acre Makerspace
Our entire campus is a gorgeous, creative incubator for all areas of study from astronomy to the
visual arts with the classrooms, studios, labs, stages, equipment, and materials you need to
create, to make, and to test your ideas.
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Groundbreakers start here. Join them.
Bennington is a place where people come to do what has never been done before. They invented modern dance, founded abstract expressionism, and led the feminist movement. They are pioneering augmented reality, working toward cures, and standing up for the environment. There’s a reason our graduates go further, faster. It’s called the Bennington Plan.