The College of Mount Saint Vincent provides to qualified, motivated students an excellent values-oriented education rooted in its Catholic heritage and in the liberal arts tradition.
    
The College requires of all its students a common core of learning experiences as well as specialization in a major field that will permit them to attain their academic, career, and personal goals.  Recognizing the ability and dignity of each person, the College teaches students to think critically, to develop self-respect and self-discipline, and to make informed choices that will affect positively their own lives and the larger world.  Students who graduate from the College are prepared for a variety of careers and professions and for responsible leadership in their fields.  

Our Goals

To achieve these ends, the College

• offers an integrated liberal arts program
• affords an educational environment of open inquiry into truth
• encourages students to think critically and constructively so that they constantly strengthen their abilities to identify academic and personal problems and to make judgments on problems of professional development
• develops self-confident, informed, concerned individuals who possess convictions of self-worth, purpose, and respect for humanity
• provides a climate of appreciation for religious and spiritual values where students may form strong and enduring value systems based on integrity and respect for the rights of others
• fosters in students respect for the views of others through opportunities to investigate various systems and cultures
• alerts students to needs in the community and the world at large and promotes a spirit of service
• infuses students with a sense of responsibility for their world and a practical urgency to be influences for good