Sterling is a college located in a charming rural Vermont village that offers both two-year and four-year undergraduate degrees in Environmental Studies. Our approach to education involves utilizing the local farms, forests, rivers, and wetlands as our classrooms. With a student body of fewer than 100 students in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, we aim to create a close-knit community that values sustainable and socially responsible living. At Sterling, we believe in experiential learning and encourage our students to actively participate and challenge the status quo. Join us at Sterling, where we believe that small is better.
 

Sterling College uses education as a force to address critical ecological problems caused by unlimited growth and consumption that is destroying the planet as we have known it. Our mission is to advance ecological thinking and action through affordable experiential learning that prepares people to be knowledgeable, skilled, and responsible leaders in the communities in which they live.

📍Abenaki (Wabanaki Confederacy) Land
Sterling acknowledges that the land on which we gather—places now known as Vermont—are the traditional and unceded territories of several indigenous peoples: the Abenaki. We also learn in-and-from a range of landscapes that belong to other indigenous peoples.