USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008: Sweet Briar College: Services & Facilities

Sweet Briar College

134 Chapel Road
Sweet Briar, VA 24595

Basic services offered:: nonremedial tutoring, placement service, health service, health insurance
Remedial learning services offered:: N/A
Counseling services offered:: career, personal, academic, psychological, religious

Career services include:: on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, career/job search classes, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training

Within six months of graduation:: 40%
Within one year of graduation:: N/A
Within two years of graduation:: N/A
Firms that most frequently hire graduates:: AOL Time/Warner; Ameriprise; BAE Systems; BB&T; Central Intelligence Agency; Ernst and Young; Geico; Peace Corps; SNL Financial; Smith Barney; Sweet Briar College - (Alumnae, Development, and Admissions offices); US Commission on Labor Relations; University of Virginia Research laboratories; Various school districts and private schools; Various stable/barn/equine affiliated positions; Wachovia

School has a library on campus?: Yes
School is a member of library consortia?: Yes
Number of books, serial backfiles, and other material including government documents:: 257,815
Number of current serial subscriptions:: 720
Number of microforms:: 461,668
Number of audiovisual materials:: 11,101
Number of E-books:: 67,804
Additional library facilities:: Sweet Briar College offers three other libraries, the Junius P. Fishburn Music Library, the Wick (closed stack) Library, and the Martin C. Shallenberger Book Arts Library. These libraries, combined with the Mary Helen Cochran Library, provide students with one of the largest private college libraries in Virginia.

Museums or special academic buildings on campus:: Students studying science use state-of-the-art equipment that enhances faculty-student collaborative research; biology equipment includes a scanning electron microscope with digital imaging system, equipment for plant and animal tissue culture, photomicrography, ultracentrifugation, electrophoresis, DNA synthesizer, and advanced video production facilities; chemistry students have access to two nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers (NMR; 400 MHz and 60 MHz), an atomic absorption spectrometer

Students required to take a computer course?: No
Students required to lease/own a computer?: No
Number of computers available to all students:: 70
Internet access available to all students?: Yes
E-mail accounts available to all students?: Yes
Computers available for student use in:: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center

In the library (excluding computer labs):: 156
In classrooms:: 65
In computer labs:: 120
Elsewhere in the school/university:: 700
Does the school have a wireless network?: Yes
Areas where wireless network is available:: in some of the libraries (excluding computer labs); in all the libraries; in some classrooms; in computer labs; in administrative/faculty offices and work areas; in some of the college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing
Total approximate number of simultaneous users that can be accommodated by the wireless network:: 600
Recommended computer operating system on campus:: N/A
Percentage of college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing units wired for high-speed Internet access:: 99%
Student webpages permitted?: Yes
Is online registration for classes available?: Yes

Campus safety and security services offered:: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc)

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