90 Quaker Hill Road
Unity, ME 04988
800-624-1024
Fax: 207-948-2928
University of Maine at Farmington
“The University of Maine at Farmington offers innovative academics, a friendly and down-to-earth attitude, and great results—all at the affordable price of a publicly-funded state college.”
Farmington, ME
http://www.umf.maine.edu/ - [email protected]
INTRODUCTION:
Who do you want to be? At the University of Maine at Farmington, a solid academic structure and a community that encourages individuality will help you find the answer. Our students are free thinkers and free spirits, but with a practical eye toward the job market. They want hard questions, not easy answers.
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ENGAGED STUDENTS
The world of knowledge spans beyond the classroom. That’s why UMF students enjoy the myriad of events that take students out of the classroom while challenging their intellect…
A Broader Perspective
Farmington offers a number of opportunities to help students connect their classroom studies to what could be their future work. Many of UMF’s students find that some of their most valuable learning experiences happen outside the classroom. These include internships, student teaching, class projects, and service learning. Last year, about 70 percent of all UMF students participated in a variety of practical, hands-on learning opportunities—from Maine-based science internships at Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor and Portland’s Maine Medical Center, to geography internships and research projects in Lanai, Hawaii.
UMF intentionally limits its enrollment to two thousand students to provide the ideal size for a quality, student-centered academic experience. Whether involved with class work, internships, or community service, each day and every hour at UMF is constructed to be a part of a student’s education. Students who are engaged with the campus and the surrounding community seven days a week are often the most successful throughout their college careers. UMF students are civic-minded, are an active part of the community, and help to make the Farmington area an even better place to live. Students volunteer as youth soccer coaches, help fill the local food pantries, organize blood drives, and distribute winter hats and mittens to area children. They are concerned about the environment and interested in the concept of sustainability. UMF students’ strong drive to make a difference also expands globally and beyond graduation.
Farmington students are active and involved, participating in over sixty clubs and organizations. Opportunities for creative expression through music, dance, writing, art, and theater are complemented by participation in club sports, intramurals, and eleven NCAA Division III athletics.
GREAT TEACHING
UMF students have unmatched choices when it comes to majors: choose a standard course of study, combine two for an interdisciplinary major, or create your own…
Good Things, Small Packages
For the past ten years, U.S. News & World Report has consistently recognized UMF as a top public liberal arts college. The American Association for Higher Education recently cited UMF among twenty colleges and universities nationwide that best exemplify the creation of opportunities for student success.
UMF provides its students with high educational standards; strong academic programs in the arts and sciences, education, and human services; a committed, caring, and rigorous faculty; learning environments that stimulate creativity and critical thinking; and financial resources that make its excellence affordable.
Farmington offers a wide range of majors, opening the door to an almost limitless variety of careers or graduate-study opportunities. These degree programs prepare students for careers in business, education, medicine, science, government, law, industry, human services, social science, the arts, and countless other professions.
Because many students have multiple academic interests, Farmington offers a variety of interdisciplinary majors such as sociology/anthropology, music/arts, geology/geography, and environmental planning and policy. Students may also create their own program, referred to as an individualized studies major, in which they combine courses from at least two disciplines and have a faculty adviser from each discipline.
The UMF honors program is open to outstanding students who have shown exceptional motivation, creativity, and a strong interest in the world of ideas. Participants in the program take small, seminar-style interdisciplinary courses and attend a variety of specially planned lectures and field trips.
Farmington believes in the value of travel as a learning experience. Travel opportunities extend from a few days at professional conferences with faculty, to three-week courses over winter break and May terms, to a full semester at another college in the U.S. or abroad. In the past few years, students and faculty have traveled to Mount Saint Helens, Ireland, Scotland, and Newfoundland to study geology; England to shoot photography; Italy and Germany to study politics; Mexico and England to study special education; sites across Maine, Vermont, and New York to study archaeological digs; Costa Rica to study biology and engage in environmental writing; and Japan to study theater and architecture.
In addition, Farmington is a member of the National Student Exchange Program, which enables students to study for up to a year at 177 different institutions across the United States and Canada, or at any of the programs abroad offered by those schools. Students can also participate in one of UMF’s direct exchange programs in Russia, China, France, or England.
Academic Programs Art; Arts Administration, Biology; Business Economics; Community Health Education *; Community Health Education: teaching concentration *; Computer Science; Creative Writing *; Early Childhood Education; Early Childhood Education: K-3 Option; Early Childhood Special Education *; Elementary Education; English; Environmental Planning and Policy; Environmental Science (B.A., B.S.); General Studies; Geography; Geology, Geology/Chemistry; Geology/Geography; History; Individualized Studies; International Studies; Mathematics; Music/Arts; Philosophy/Religion; Political Science/Social Science; Psychology; Rehabilitation Services *; Rehabilitation Administration, Secondary Education; Sociology/Anthropology; Special Education; Theater/Arts; Women’s Studies. Certificates: Ski Industries* * New England Regional Student Programs. Through the New England Board of Higher Education, students from other New England states and Canada can apply for certain programs (varies by state) at UMF and pay reduced tuition.
VIBRANT COMMUNITIES
Over 50 student clubs, intramural sports, and frequent campus events give students plenty of options for socializing and out-of-class learning…
Where Independence Meets Collaboration
The quality of the people who make up the University of Maine at Farmington has enabled it to build a national reputation for academic excellence. Important to the university is its ongoing commitment to civic engagement across the curriculum and its shared interest in interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability and the study of natural and social systems.
UMF’s location in the foothills of the spectacular lakes and mountains region of western Maine is itself a source of strength. UMF values both the close integration of the campus with the Farmington community and its proximity to a natural world, offering