About Garrett College

Surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, Garrett College's sixty-acre campus overlooks the town of McHenry, Maryland, near the Northern side of Deep Creek Lake and the Wisp Resort.
Garrett College celebrated its 35th anniversary in the Fall of 2006. Since its opening in 1971, Garrett has grown in all respects, and plans have been made for its continued growth in the future.

Currently, the College enrolls over 750 credit and 4,000 noncredit students. It attracts students locally, nationally, and globally. The campus complex consists of classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, a gymnasium, science and computer laboratories, a bookstore, a game room, dining facilities, student government offices, continuing education offices, a Center for Adventure and Outdoor Studies, and residential facilities. A new Learning Resource Center opened in the Spring of 2008 and a Community Athletic and Recreation Center will open in 2009.

Garrett College offers one- and two-year transfer programs as well as associate degrees in Arts and Sciences, Teacher Education, General Studies, and Business. The College is also known for its signature programs in Adventure Sports, Natural Resources and Wildlife Technology, and Juvenile Justice. One-year certificate programs are also offered in specific career areas. Garrett's graduates experience extraordinary success in transfer to four year colleges.

Garrett College is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.