What You’ll Learn

You’ll begin with coursework to focus on the foundations of drawing, painting, sculpture, digital media, and art history, with electives in photography, printmaking, and ceramics. You’ll also explore arts technology through such courses as Interactive Media Arts, Website Design and Development, and more. Your coursework will help you to hone your skills, assess your work, and express yourself as you develop a solid foundation within a creative community. 

During your third semester, you’ll apply for formal acceptance to the B.F.A. and submit a portfolio of creative work for review. As a B.F.A. student, you’ll take on self-designed studio work while working in a small, tight-knit community of other artists and faculty. 

Through regular studio practice, you’ll create a professional portfolio to showcase your artistic discipline for your visual arts career. 

Out of the Classroom, In the Community

Art is meant to be shared. As a student, you’ll find abundant opportunities to reach beyond campus to build your resumé, network within the larger art community, and display your work:  

• Showcase your work at The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery and the Visual Arts Center on campus. 

• Visit major cities to soak up arts and culture. You might travel to Boston or New York City for lessons in art history with your senior seminar.  

• Engage with world-class art within easy reach at venues such as the Hood Museum, Williams College Museum, Clark Institute, Mass MOCA, Middlebury College Museum, and Fleming Museum, to name a few.  

• Work as an assistant for local and regional artists and intern in galleries, museums, art organizations, public relations firms, graphic design firms, and professional studios.  

Study abroad to fuel your creativity by exposure to art and culture in another country. Art students have studied in Canada, China, England, Greece, Holland, India, Ireland, Italy, Nepal, South Korea, Tibet and more. 

Special Facilities 

Enjoy a hub of artistic exploration in the VTSU Johnson Visual Arts Center. The large facility houses multiple studios for painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, woodworking, and photography. You’ll also find a computer lab for digital art, a quiet room for focused study, a dedicated community art room, and two public art galleries.  

What You’ll Learn

You’ll start with a solid foundation in programming and programming best practices, learning the ins and outs of programming across languages and paradigms, the concepts of databases, and the fundamentals of the twin technologies of networking and security. You will learn how today’s software industry works and enough theory to support your abilities. 

The concentration features three required courses to dive into mobile app development, advanced concepts in web development, and how to build a friendly and efficient experience for app users. Beyond this foundation, you’ll choose your own path, with electives ranging from AI to 3D graphics. 

What You’ll Learn

You’ll develop a well-rounded skill set to prepare for a variety of data science jobs in this in-demand field. 

Building on foundational technical skills gained through core courses, you’ll learn how to design database systems, delve into machine learning, manage and process data, make inferences, and communicate findings to an audience.  

Through electives, you can expand into areas that can be strategic for your career path, including courses in the Business Administration, Psychology, or Social Science departments. For example, you could take Principles of Marketing and Marketing Research to prepare for the rapidly growing field of marketing analytics or choose Financial Accounting and Project Management to prepare for managerial roles in business. 

A final capstone project in mathematics is your chance to explore a topic of interest and demonstrate your mature skills as a mathematician, or choose a CIS senior project to demonstrate your mastery of program subjects. 

Out of the Classroom, In the Community

At Vermont State, you’ll gain leading-edge skills for data science and data analytics jobs through internship placements with dynamic organizations around the region and across the country, including the Vermont Agency of Education and Vermont Biomedical Research Network (VBRN). 

Practical, Relevant Skills:
You will build foundational skills for the workplace and prepare to be a leader in your field:  

• Communication: You’ll be able to interpret and express ideas about mathematics clearly and professionally in written and spoken communications by using modeling and inferential statistics. 
• Problem-solving: You’ll graduate with experience analyzing data and big data, and using computational skills, algorithms, and theoretical knowledge to solve problems. Students use current technologies, including statistical software, to explore phenomenon, conduct modeling, analyze data, and make inferences.  
• Statistical Thinking: You’ll learn to design statistical experiments using appropriate analytical methods and scales.  
• Graduate Study: Statistics graduates are ready to continue their education if they want to, including in Vermont State’s Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program.

Out of the Classroom, In the Community

Through internships, co-ops, career coaching, and more, you’ll gain leading-edge skills to give you a competitive edge for statistics jobs. Internship placements will help you build a network of experts to guide as you start your career. 

What You’ll Learn

You’ll begin by gaining a solid foundation, learning the ins and outs of programming across languages and paradigms. You will learn how today’s software industry works and understand enough theory to support your abilities. 

Through System Programming in C, you’ll be introduced to the low-level concepts needed to get the most out of software. In the Operating Systems course, you will learn about the insides of the Linux kernel and how to modify and build such systems. Technical electives include System Programming in Rust, Parallel Programming, Compiler Design, Network Programming, Machine Learning, and Human Computer Interaction. You’ll also have access to a wide range of computing courses through the Application Programming Concentration and the Information Technology and Data Science & Applied Statistics programs. 

Outside the Classroom, In the Community

Our student-run broadcast,  News7, gives you real-world experience as you develop your news gathering, writing, and broadcasting skills for local and online audiences every day. We broadcast full newscasts one day each week and broadcast weather daily to over 10,000 households in 14 towns that surround our campus. All newscasts and weather are streamed on our social media platforms as well!  

Your News7 practicum classes plus courses such as Social Media in the Media and Mobile Storytelling  will give you lots of practical experience for a strong career in journalism.  

You can also intern with stations in New York and New England. Broadcast students have interned with all of the stations in the Boston, Hartford, Providence, and Portland markets, as well as with ESPN, NESN, and NECN. 

Special Facilities:  

News7’s facility is state of the art and as real as it gets; Avid Nexus and Media Composer video integration, High Definition, Grass Valley switcher, and Avid iNews writing software. We also have the Video Instruction Center (VIC) where students hone their directing skills in a two-camera HD environment. Students are shooting on broadcast cameras and editing on Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premier.  

What You’ll Learn

Journalism students research, write, and publish stories that make a difference, on campus and beyond, in both print and digital formats via the award-winning student newspaper.   

Working closely with faculty and peers, you will study the ways media interacts with society while you produce your own news stories, social media posts, websites, and scripts.   

Outside the Classroom, in the Community

You’ll gain professional experience through your coursework and have so many opportunities to sharpen your skills through creating independent projects, work with The Spartan (our campus-based newspaper and website), and more.  

Journalism-related internship opportunities are many. Our students work with local and regional newspapers, area organizations and businesses, including The Rutland Herald,  Seven Days, and VTDigger.  

What You’ll Learn  

In Vermont State’s Data Science & Applied Statistics program, you’ll develop advanced abilities in a number of areas to give you a well-rounded skill set.  

In your core courses, you’ll combine advanced study in mathematics with topics like computer programming, database design, algorithms, machine learning, and techniques for data visualization to master the fundamentals of data science. You’ll become experienced at analyzing information and using computational skills, algorithms, and theoretical knowledge to find solutions to challenges.    

Electives give you the chance to expand into areas that can be strategic for your career path. For example, you could take Principles of Marketing and Marketing Research to prepare for the rapidly-growing field of marketing analytics.

Outside the Classroom, In the Community  

At Vermont State, you’ll gain leading-edge skills for data science, data analytics, and applied statistics jobs through internship placements with dynamic organizations around the region and across the country.   

Special Facilities 

Enjoy access to dedicated, state-of-the art computer labs.