Founded in 1791, the University of Vermont was planned in the days of the Vermont Republic, and you're on its campus now. Feel the weight of its founding in 1791 — the same moment Vermont was stepping into statehood — and the unusual story that its plans began in the days of the Vermont Republic, making it unique among public universities for having been at least planned outside an admitted state. You are on a campus that is the oldest university in Vermont and the fifth-oldest in New England.
Wander mentally through its ten colleges and schools, including the Robert Larner College of Medicine, and imagine the classrooms that support more than 100 undergraduate majors alongside graduate and professional programs. This is a research university classified as R1: Doctoral Universities—Very high research activity, and its athletic spirit is visible too: UVM teams are the Catamounts, competing in NCAA Division I, primarily in the America East Conference and Hockey East Association. The University of Vermont Medical Center places its primary facility right here on campus, tying healing and learning together.
Ten colleges and schools share this ground you're crossing, from the Larner College of Medicine to the Catamounts' playing fields.