What Our Students Like Best About Burlington
What our students like best about Burlington…

“There is so much to do, whether you're skiing, shopping or on the lake."
- Hattie Johnson, Newbury, New Hampshire

“Burlington is a beautiful, fun city and I always feel safe here.”- Julie Seunghee Rho, Seoul, Korea

“One of my favorite things to do during the winter is go downtown to Muddy Waters with a good book and get a raspberry hot chocolate.  There's nothing better during those cold winter months!” - Tala Williford, Chattanooga, TN

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Burlington: A Great College Town

It’s fun. Beautiful. Safe. Cool. Diverse. Busy. Surprising.

Burlington is Vermont’s largest city, and Saint Mike’s campus is only about three miles from Burlington’s downtown and its famous Church Street Marketplace [panorama].

There are over 10,000 college students in town, attending Saint Mike’s, UVM, Champlain and Burlington College, and the city keeps them busy. You can catch local and national bands most nights, eat great foods from around the world, shop for snowboarding gear, get your latte fix at a bunch of coffee shops, try on some awesome vintage clothes and spend the day on shores of Lake Champlain at the beach, at the boathouse [panorama], on the seven-mile bikepath or out on the water.

There are lots of opportunities for first-hand job experience at an internship in town. Local companies including IBM, GE Medical, Burton Snowboards and Ben and Jerry’s (yum).

Got the travel bug? Burlington is just a road-trip away from the Winter Olympic cities of Lake Placid and Montreal, plus Boston and Portland, Maine. There’s lots of bus, air and train connections in town to get you where you want to go, and bring you back again.

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What's Great About Burlington

Named one of the top ten college towns in America by The Princeton Review  

Rated one of the 10 Best Cities for the Next Decade by Kiplinger

Ranked 7th most student-friendly U.S. city for populations under 1 million by Collegia

Rated "One of the 50 Best Places to Live" and "Editor's Pick in the Northeast" by Men's Journal

Named the healthiest city in America by the Center for Disease Control

Ranked the 2nd Happiest place to live in the U.S. by Self magazine

Praised for its "worldliness" and its "socially conscious vibe" by the New York Times