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Spaces for Teaching and Learning

The infrastructure for active learning requires a new architecture for student success in today’s and tomorrow’s world. Advances in technology open new possibilities for how faculty teach and how students learn. Taken together, Norwich University’s physical campus demonstrates the institution’s commitment to engaged teaching and learning. 

Recently, Norwich underwent a major renovation of three landmark buildings and added a new academic building, Mack Hall, intentionally designed to shape our campus for the next century. Mack features room for collaboration, labs that spur experimentation, and spaces that ignite discourse and unite diverse views. Home to the Computer Science and Cybersecurity programs, Mack Hall contains spacious classrooms, a cybersecurity operations center, performing arts center, and case-study rooms. Mack Hall also houses a state-of-the-art, 400-seat auditorium. The building’s facilities can support the hosting of interdisciplinary tabletop exercises. 

MORE ACTIVE-LEARNING SPACES

  • The university’s radio station, WNUB-FM, is located in the Communications Building.
  • The Engineering, Math, and Science Complex contains the university’s Information Technology Services office and the majority of the campus’s independent computer labs.
  • The Science Complex also features updated natural-science laboratories including biochemistry, chemistry, geology, microbiology, neuroscience, and physics.
  • The Kreitzberg Library has a catalog of more than 240,000 books, about 45,000 electronic journals, and a collection of federal government publications. The library has group-study rooms, a service desk, and instructional technologies.
  • The Norwich University Archives and Special Collections houses rare books and unique source materials relating to military history, the history of Vermont, and the history of the university.
  • Liberal arts and humanities are housed in buildings with fully renovated smart classrooms, seminar rooms, and language labs.

Unequivocally, Norwich University is dedicated to creating and supporting space for engaged and transformative learning. These and many more dynamic, student-centered experiences are born out of a commitment of Norwich’s resources to its facilities.

“To give our youth an education that shall be American in its character – to enable them to act as well as to think – to execute as well as to conceive – to tolerate all opinions when reason is left free to combat them – to make moral, patriotic, efficient, and useful citizens, and to qualify them for all those high responsibilities resting upon a citizen in this free republic.”

First Published — 1843 Catalog

Internationalized Education

Norwich University values and actively supports opportunities for faculty, staff and students to be globally engaged.

We host a diverse student body of international students who come to Norwich to pursue their academic goals.

We support our faculty by empowering them to travel, teach, and engage in research overseas to build intercultural proficiency and incorporate international perspectives into their teaching.

Our U.S. students take advantage of CityLAB:Berlin, an instructional location in Germany, and a host of partner programs for education abroad and international service learning on all six continents. For the full breadth of our international offerings, contact the NU International Center. 

Success After Norwich

Norwich students turn their passions and experiences into real-world opportunities, internships, and careers, thanks to one-on-one career advising, academic mentoring, and a network of thousands of alumni and parents ready to offer advice and networking.

Norwich’s 27,000-plus alumni span the globe, living and leading as entrepreneurs, advancing science and technology, improving communities, and serving our nation’s military. Their affinity for Norwich extends to every student and graduate, and they love to come back, give back, and pay it forward.

  • “No one cared about my gender or physiological capabilities,” Bernheim said, reflecting on Army Ranger School. “They cared that I did the work.” Read More
    Rebekah “Rose” Bernheim ’14 10th Woman in U.S. History to Graduate Army Ranger School
  • “When it came time to expand Studio 355, I made a conscious effort to hire Norwich graduates because I know what they were taught...” Read More
    Joe Fisher 10 & M’11 Founder, Studio 355 Architecture
  • “I love that a small chunk of the research I’m doing will go toward the reduction of nutrients in the ocean and cleaning the water.” Read More
    Elizabeth Ells ’18 Graduate Student in Oceanography, UMass-Dartmouth
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Accreditation and Recognition

Regional Accreditation
Regional Accreditation
Norwich University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), known formerly as the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC). Learn more about Norwich University’s NECHE 2020 Comprehensive Report here.
National Recognition
National Recognition
The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security have designated Norwich University as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.
State Authorization
State Authorization
Norwich University has been approved by the Vermont Agency of Education to participate in the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA). Participation in NC-SARA provides Norwich University with reciprocity to offer online/distance learning programs to residents of the other NC-SARA states.
Professional Accreditation
Professional Accreditation
Norwich University's Project Management concentration in both the MBA and Master of Science in Information Security and Assurance programs is accredited by the PMI Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC).
Program Accreditation
Program Accreditation

The baccalaureate degree program in nursing and master’s degree program in nursing at Norwich University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education — ccneaccreditation.org.

The program is also approved by the Vermont Board of Nursing.

Program Accreditation
Program Accrediation
Norwich University's Civil Engineering & Environmental Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
Program Accreditation
Program Accreditation
Norwich University's Architecture program is accredited by the National Architecture Accreditation Board.
Program Accreditation
Program Accreditation
Norwich University is a member of the Associate of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Program Accreditation
Program Accreditation
Norwich University is a member of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium.
Program Accreditation
Program Accreditation
Norwich University's MBA program, BS in Management and BS in Accounting are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.

Assessment Reports:
School of Business

MBA

Athletic Program
Program Accreditation
Norwich University's Athletic Training program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education
Education Programs
Program Accreditation
Norwich University's education preparation programs are accredited by Vermont’s Agency of Education’s Result’s Oriented Program Approval (ROPA)

 

 

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