Grade Carolina Day School 1345 Hendersonville Rd. Asheville School 360 Asheville School Rd. Affordable continuing education courses and full-degree programs provide an opportunity for learning at any age. Plenty of non-credit classes covering a variety of interests are taught in the Continuing Education Division. Founded as a women's college, Montreat was restructured as a coed junior college in 1959, and as a full baccalaureate institution in 1985.
Students can study various fields in the liberal arts.
A teaching certification program is also available here. Offers undergraduate liberal arts degrees in the arts an humanities, the natural and social sciences, and selected pre-professional and professional programs. It is part of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system. The University's Ramsey Library houses nearly 318,000 volumes, as well as a plethora of documents, and audio and video tapes. The ten-acre Botanical Gardens are adjacent to the University and feature thousands of labeled plants native to the area.