Marlboro College to merge with University of Bridgeport

Marlboro College, a small liberal arts college in southern Vermont, will merge with the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, the schools jointly announced Thursday.

“To our sorrow, we don’t have enough students. And those that come, we discount their tuition too much, so our financial models – they just aren’t sustainable,” said Marlboro College President Kevin Quigley.

Marlboro, where undergraduate enrollment has dipped below 150 this year, will become the Marlboro College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Bridgeport. The two schools have signed a letter of intent and hope to have a deal finalized by the end of 2019. If all goes according to plan, the merged school would be fully operational July 1, 2020.

Quigley said Marlboro reached out to about 70 schools in search of a partner, talked to about 20, and received four written proposals before settling on Bridgeport.

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