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DIVISION III. THE LAKE SUNAPEE REGION.

Colby-Sawyer College

Colby-Sawyer is a private college of about 760 matriculated undergraduates on 200 acres in New London, New Hampshire, 90 minutes north of Boston. The Chargers race the EISA carnival circuit against Division I programs while the college itself competes in NCAA Division III, and the home hill, Mount Sunapee, is a 15-minute drive from campus with a free student season pass. The 2023 tuition reset put published tuition at $19,000 for 2026-27, so the total billed cost is under $39,000 before aid.

New London, NH

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NCAA divisionEISA · NCAA skiing
D3
Matriculated undergraduatesFall 2023
764
Direct billed charges (tuition, fee, housing and food)2026-27
$38,850
Home hill (EISA-listed alpine venue)2025-26
Mount Sunapee
Drive from campus to Mount SunapeeCollege outdoor page
15 min
Student-faculty ratioFall 2023
10:1
Roster athletes2025-26
10
NCAA power rankscore 64.01
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Why Colby-Sawyer?

Small college,big-circuit racing.

Colby-Sawyer is one of the few Division III colleges racing the EISA carnival circuit, and its setting in the Lake Sunapee region keeps training close to class.

  • Mount Sunapee in winter, the Colby-Sawyer alpine team's home hill 15 minutes from campus

    Mount Sunapee is 15 minutes away

    The college's outdoor page lists Mount Sunapee, with 67 trails and 233 skiable acres, as a 15-minute drive from campus, and every student receives a free ski pass there.(colby-sawyer.edu)

  • Mount Sunapee seen from Lake Sunapee in summer

    EISA carnivals against Division I fields

    The 2025-26 schedule ran through the Colby, St. Lawrence, Dartmouth, Vermont and Williams carnivals and the NCAA East Region Championships at Middlebury, the same circuit the Division I programs race.(colby-sawyerathletics.com)

  • Main Street in New London, New Hampshire

    A reset sticker price

    For 2026-27 tuition is $19,000 and total direct billed charges for a resident student are $38,850; the college reports that 100% of traditional full-time undergraduates received institutional aid in 2023-24.(colby-sawyer.edu)

  • Aerial view of New London, New Hampshire, from the southeast

    Nursing with Dartmouth Health

    The nursing major runs through a partnership with Dartmouth Health, and the college states that more than 80% of its nursing graduates start their careers at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.(colby-sawyer.edu)

About the school

The honest version.

What the school is, what it is known for, and what a family should weigh before committing.

Colby-Sawyer is a very small private college of roughly 760 undergraduates in New London, New Hampshire, a hill town in the Lake Sunapee region about 90 minutes from Boston. Founded in 1837, it has reorganized around professional programs, above all nursing through a long partnership with Dartmouth Health, plus business, exercise science, environmental science and psychology; every student completes an internship and earns a professional minor. In 2023 the college cut its published tuition by 62% to $17,500 (now $18,500), so the total billed cost is about $37,600 before any aid, and everyone is considered for scholarships. For a racer the appeal is proximity: Mount Sunapee is a 15-minute drive, students get a free season pass, and the Chargers race the EISA carnival circuit against the Division I schools even though the college is NCAA Division III (GNAC) with no athletic scholarships. The trade-offs are scale: under 1,000 students, 19 majors, an undergraduate enrollment that halved over a decade, and a small ski team whose racers typically finish toward the back of EISA fields.

Know before you commit

  • Tiny and shrinking: a little over 700 undergraduates on campus in 2024, half the figure of a decade earlier; the 2023 tuition reset was explicitly a bid to reverse that, and the college itself has described the regional demographic decline as a lasting challenge.(vnews.com)
  • Division III with no athletic scholarships, a short list of 19 majors after earlier program cuts, and a small alpine squad: at the 2026 NCAA East Regional slalom its two men's entrants finished 36th and 48th.(colby-sawyerathletics.com)
  • At the January 2026 St. Lawrence Carnival at Whiteface, none of the four women's entrants qualified for a second run in either giant slalom or slalom.(colby-sawyerathletics.com)
  • Retention and completion are modest: the college reports a 68% first-year retention rate for the 2020 cohort and a 57% four-year graduation rate for the entering class of 2017.(colby-sawyer.edu)

Feel the campus

From first tracks to final exams.

Credited archive photographs of the campus, the town and the hill; not current team photography.

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Ski team experience

The Chargerson the carnival circuit.

Colby-Sawyer fields men's and women's alpine teams in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association with Mount Sunapee as the listed home venue, racing slalom and giant slalom at EISA carnivals hosted by Colby, St. Lawrence, Dartmouth, Vermont and Williams and at the NCAA East Region Championships. The college is an NCAA Division III member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference, so there are no athletic scholarships. Head coach Andy Locke, hired in August 2021 after 11 years with Pats Peak Ski Club, runs both teams.

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Team athletes
10
Men / women
9 / 0
International athletes
1
Conference
EISA
Alpine disciplines
SL + GS
Men's / women's roster, 2025-26
10 / 6

Where Christina fits today

Not a selection or admission prediction.

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  • GSNo comparison
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  • SGNo comparison
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  • DHNo comparison
    200.61 · —

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Academics

What you can study.

Colby-Sawyer runs a two-semester calendar with no January term: the fall 2026 semester ends with final exams on December 14-17 and spring classes begin January 19, 2027, so the early carnivals fall in the first weeks of spring term and the late-February NCAA East Regional lands mid-semester, with only a one-day winter recess on February 15. The college offers 21 bachelor's programs across nursing and health sciences, business, sciences, social sciences and the arts, and states that 100% of students complete one or more internships in their field.

  • 764
    Matriculated undergraduates
  • 10:1
    Student-faculty ratio
  • 57%
    Four-year graduation rate

7 featured fields · full catalog

  • Nursing (B.S.)Health
    Clinical education runs through the Dartmouth Health partnership; first-year nursing applicants must submit SAT, ACT or TEAS scores.
  • Business Administration (B.S.)Business
    A B.S. in business administration, with minors available in accounting and finance, entrepreneurship and contemporary marketing.
  • Exercise Science (B.S.)Health
    Offered with a pre-athletic training option and pre-physical therapy and pre-occupational therapy tracks.
  • Environmental Science (B.S.)Environment
    A B.S. paired with an environmental studies degree and a wildlife studies track in the same department.
  • Psychology (B.A.)Social science
    A B.A. in psychology; the college also offers a pre-art therapy track.
  • Sport Management (B.S.)Business
    A B.S. in sport management, the major of one of the 2025-26 women's alpine racers.
  • Biology (B.S.)Science
    A B.S. in biology with pre-medical and pre-veterinary tracks available.
Explore majors

Source: colby-sawyer.edu

Admissions

Your path here.

SAT and ACT scores are optional except for first-year nursing applicants, who must submit SAT, ACT or TEAS results; the college expects four years of college-prep English and three each of math, laboratory science and social studies. Admission decisions are made by the admissions office, and being recruited by the ski team does not guarantee acceptance.

Testing
test-optional(colby-sawyer.edu)
Application deadline
December 1 (early action, decisions by January 15); April 1 (regular decision priority deadline)(catalog.colby-sawyer.edu)
  1. Complete Colby-Sawyer's online application or the Common Application
  2. Send an official high school transcript
  3. Submit the writing sample using the essay topics in the application
  4. Add SAT or ACT scores and a recommendation if you choose to; both are optional except SAT, ACT or TEAS for nursing
Admissions details

Cost & financial aid

What a year costs.

2026-27 published figures.

Published costs
Tuition$19,000
Comprehensive fee$1,100
Housing and food$18,750
Total direct billed charges (resident)$38,850
Total estimated cost of attendance (resident)$42,300

Figures are for a traditional undergraduate living on campus; the estimated cost of attendance adds books, supplies and personal expenses to the billed charges. Colby-Sawyer is NCAA Division III, so no athletic scholarships are offered; the college says all students are considered for scholarships and awards of up to $30,000 a year and reports that 100% of traditional full-time undergraduates received institutional aid in 2023-24.(colby-sawyer.edu)

Financial aid information

Location

Campus, hill, airport.

Colby-Sawyer College, New London

A 200-acre campus with 35 buildings at 541 Main Street in New London, in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee region 90 minutes north of Boston.

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Aerial view of New London, New Hampshire, from the southeast
New London, New Hampshire, seen from the southeast in November 2025; the campus sits along Main Street in the village.

Student life

Beyond the hill.

  • Mountain Day

    On a fall day chosen by the president, the Colgate Hall bell rings, classes are canceled and the college boards buses to hike Mount Kearsarge, sign a banner and picnic at the summit; the tradition dates to the mid-19th century.(colby-sawyer.edu)

  • Housing for four years

    The college has 15 residence halls and college houses and guarantees housing to all undergraduates for their time at Colby-Sawyer; first-years live in Best, Lawson and Colby Halls.(colby-sawyer.edu)

  • Outdoors from the door

    Students get a free Mount Sunapee ski pass, the 1.8-mile Morris Trail loops the Kelsey Athletic Campus, and the college runs field-study courses in river, tidal, desert and alpine settings.(colby-sawyer.edu)

Athlete voices

Real stories.

  • “With such a small campus, it feels like everyone in the community truly cares about you.”
    Madison Quick, nursing major · source

Alumni & outcomes

What came next.

Class of 2021 employed and/or in graduate school(colby-sawyer.edu)
99%
Nursing graduates who start at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center(colby-sawyer.edu)
80%+
USCSCA All-Academic ski team selections, 2023-24(colby-sawyerathletics.com)
8
Four-year graduation rate, entering class of 2017(colby-sawyer.edu)
57%

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Sources, rights and updates

Where this comes from.

Every figure carries its reporting period and a link. Rosters and points come from official rosters and FIS or USCSA results. Photographs are Wikimedia Commons archive images under open licences, credited on each image.

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