Approximately 1700 full and part-time students attend the college. The majority are Vermonters, but many are from the New England and Middle Atlantic states. The rural lifestyles of the state and the personal intimacy characteristic of small colleges flavor Castleton life. Teaching and learning are paramount and student learning is made direct and stimulating by a high caliber faculty. There is a genuine commitment to teaching and to knowing students as individuals, not as unidentified faces in a crowd.
Classes are small, lively, and interactive.
Students have the opportunity to be guided and nurtured by a caring community which values individuality and tolerates divergent viewpoints. Castleton s mission is an effort by the faculty, staff, and administration to articulate what drives this institution. It was developed in 1987 and was debated and accepted by the Faculty Assembly and approved by the college president. The Mission is published in the college catalogue. Its mission is to help students develop the knowledge, competence and character necessary for contribution, leadership and success in a complex and increasingly global society.