Location
At Marist, students receive an outstanding education without any limitations of location. Students can avail themselves of opportunities at Marist's main campus and facilities in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley, the College's branch campus in Florence, Italy, and any number of the College's convenient online courses and programs of study. With so many enriching academic and cultural experiences available, Marist students are limited only by their imaginations.
Across the beautiful campus on the banks of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York, Marist provides students state-of-the-art residential and academic buildings with an abundance of dining areas, study lounges, and multiple Starbucks cafes across campus. With a student body dedicated to enriching studies with academic and personal development at the forefront, Marist has focused on creating collaborative spaces to foster a real community across the student body.
Campus Facilities & Equipment
Marist College provides students a state-of-the-art education, which is true for the facilities around the campus as well. In the Lowell Thomas School of Communications Marist provides students a hands-on environment that sets you up for success. Students can choose to get involved in activities that include on-campus TV, radio, Public Relations agency, and sports reporting that give them the opportunity to do what they love. Marist clubs and organizations are student run and each has a faculty advisor that guides their activities. There are also select honor societies for student excelling in their coursework.
With a recent renovation of the Marist Steel Plant Studios, home of the Marist fashion program, students are offered state-of-the-art equipment heavily used in the fashion industry. Key spaces in the facility include: digital labs, fashion studios, a makerspace, fashion exhibition gallery, art gallery, Mporium retail laboratory, and the Winter Garden.
Marist College believes that their students are industry leaders once they graduate from the institution and those students put a stake of the college in the. The world-class Investment Center is equipped with twelve Bloomberg terminals that facilitate a "hands-on" learning experience. Students have access to real-time news, financial market data and prices, and professional tools that enable them to explore, investigate and analyze companies and securities. Classrooms are designed to encourage collaboration, with seats arranged in clusters to facilitate student group work. In this center students are able to invest from the Greystone a fund, a college endowment provided to students to invest real money on the market.
Facilities across the Marist campus are outfitted with industry relevant equipment, and a close relationship with IBM has helped Marist continue to develop and grow with advancements and offer students a practical and best of an education possible.
Additionally, the newly renovated McCann Center provides students and student athletes a brand new, state-of-the-art facility to train and learn while at Marist College. Across campus, students are able to take advantage of all buildings, and with no separate application for the different schools, Marist offers all students the ability to learn and grow together.
Off-Campus Opportunities
Apart from the main campus in the Hudson Valley, Marist is a quick train ride to New York City, where students can take part in competitive internships and enjoy a weekend away from campus seeing Broadway shows and utilizing everything the big apple has to offer. Marist's reach into the community isn't confined to the gates of the campus, rather the Marist student body is encouraged and eager to become part of the greater Poughkeepsie community.
Through the Campus Ministry and Center for Civic Engagement programs, Marist students aren't positioned to be transient residents in the Hudson Valley, they are there to effect change and expand the Red Fox community into the surrounding area. With opportunities such as the Tarver Internship Program, Marist students are encouraged to be a stakeholder in the local community and enhance their education by becoming part of it. These programs are just a few instances of localizing a Marist education and creating real, positive, reform in the surround area.
Marist is near the Hudson River, so students often "fill their days by walking along and laying out...when [the weather] is nice." In the winter, "students may be sledding on snow days or getting together with friends" elsewhere. "A big tradition is jumping into the Hudson River before you graduate," says a student. Indeed, Marist's beauty, which "never fails to amaze" students, offers nearby Rhinebeck and New Paltz for hiking and access to the Walkway Over the Hudson, as well as the chance to just walk around the "rich community." For study time, there are campus cafés, and "there are a lot of cute [off-campus cafés] around Poughkeepsie" too. The library "is a very popular hub for studying, group work, or just [hanging] out." Clubs and intramurals "[give] the campus life after dark." Students also mention that "the student center often holds events like bingo nights, standup [comedy nights], and more." Outside of participating either in sports or clubs, many students "intern in NYC several times a week while also maintaining a social life."
