It has an excellent academic reputation. Enrollment is 29,000 students. Housing in residential colleges, with meal plans and college traditions, or in off-campus apartments. Students may petition to attend the University of Tasmania , not on Smith's active list because no Smith student has attended in recent memory. See Professor Jay Garfield if you have questions about Tasmania.
Students enroll in four academic courses concerning rainforest ecology, management, and policy.
A week-long introduction to research, statistics, and scientific writing precedes the directed research projects in the latter part of the semester. Requires at least one college-level ecology or biology course. Housing in rustic on-site cabins. A semester or full year program. One of Australia's leading universities.