Founded by Martha Berry to provide local children with a quality education, Berry College builds on her proud legacy by inviting today’s students to balance intellectual exploration, hands-on learning and character development—while contributing their ideas and efforts to the betterment of the college community and the larger world.
Berry’s campus, the world’s largest, includes a vast ecosystem of woodlands, meadows and streams and is home to unique opportunities for research, entrepreneurship, hands-on learning and recreation. It has been consistently ranked among country’s most beautiful by Architectural Digest, Travel + Leisure, Buzzfeed, Thrillist and Southern Living.
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Berry is an independent, coeducational college of approximately 2,100 students. For more than a century the College has offered a comprehensive liberal arts education that balances intellectual exploration, practical learning and character development.
Founded by Martha Berry in 1902 as the Boys Industrial School with the mission of providing educational opportunity to poor children of the rural South, Berry became a four-year coeducational college in 1926. Historically nondenominational, the College embraces such Christian principles as inclusivity and service, encourages examination of faith and values, and is welcoming and respectful to those from all religious backgrounds.