![]() ![]() Faculty credit this success to small class sizes and the very high likelihood that students will have participated in research teams, led by faculty, conducting various research projects, many of which are for the state or federal government. Placements to graduate schools, particularly in environmental science research, policy, and law, have increased considerably in the last decade. Alumni go on to careers in environmental policy, renewable energy management, biological research, state park & wildlife refuge management, natural sciences education, and wilderness recreation organization. The college has a reputation for hands-on and outdoor study, and for providing students a gateway to outdoor careers. All of the degrees offered focus in environmental or natural resource studies. The academic program comprises a broad environmental curriculum with 16 different majors and 6 minors. The school has continued to grow and has today one of the broadest environmental and natural resources programs in the United States. Two years later it changed its name to Unity College and in 1969 awarded degrees to its first graduating class of 24. The founders, a group of local business people, were looking for ways to counter economic decline in the adjacent town of Unity. The college was founded in 1965 as the Unity Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a faculty of 15 and a student body of 39. ![]() The college has a long-lived reputation for providing recruits to federal and state conservation agencies, and, more recently, for placing students in graduate school for environmental science research. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching also selected Unity College for its 2010 Community Engagement Classification. colleges and universities named to The Princeton Review’s Green Rating Honor Roll. In 2010, Unity College was named to the top 30 of the Washington Monthly college rankings, and was one of eighteen U.S. In 2010 it was named to the Princeton Review list of the eighteen leading "green" colleges, having received the highest possible rating. News & World Report as one of America's Best Colleges. The college offers an undergraduate education that emphasizes the environment and natural resources throughout the academic program. It is located 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Bangor, Maine and 25 miles (40 km) from the Maine coast. Unity College is a private, liberal arts college in Unity, Waldo County, Maine. For other Unity Colleges, please see Unity College (disambiguation).
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