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College of the Atlantic
College of the Atlantic, founded in 1969, offers only a single undergraduate degree — human ecology — with every student's coursework built around that unified interdisciplinary framework examining the relationship between humans and their environment, an academic structure unlike that of virtually any other American college. The college's tiny size, fewer than 400 students, and its coastal Bar Harbor, Maine campus adjacent to Acadia National Park give students direct access to significant protected natural land for environmental research and fieldwork. College of the Atlantic became the first carbon-neutral college campus in the United States, reflecting the school's institutional commitment to environmental sustainability as a lived practice rather than solely an academic subject of study. The college's singular focus on human ecology, its remarkably small size, and its direct coastal Maine wilderness setting have made it one of the most distinctive environmentally focused colleges in the country, drawing students specifically committed to that particular interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies.
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Colby College
Colby College, founded in 1813, is part of the "CBB" consortium of elite Maine liberal arts colleges alongside Bowdoin and Bates, and the college's substantial recent investment in downtown Waterville, Maine's revitalization has made Colby a significant direct economic and civic partner to its host city in ways unusual for a residential liberal arts college. The college's Environmental Studies program benefits from Colby's rural Maine setting and its dedicated 714-acre biological preserve, giving students direct access to substantial protected natural land for hands-on ecological research and field study. Colby's need-blind admission and full-need financial aid policy, combined with its steadily rising academic selectivity over the past two decades, have moved the college into consistent placement among the very top liberal arts colleges nationally. The college's combination of genuine academic rigor, its distinctive direct investment in its host city's downtown revitalization, and its substantial on-campus nature preserve has made Colby one of the more institutionally distinctive top liberal arts colleges in New England.
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