Schumacher College

Schumacher College is an progressive college for ecological studies offering postgraduate and undergraduate programmes, research degrees, short courses and a horticulture residency.

We focus on interactive and experiential education to help students develop the practical skills and strategic thinking required to face 21st century challenges.

This year we are celebrating our 30th year of providing transformative learning experiences at Dartington.

ABOUT US: Read more about our history and ethos >

Grower in our growing space, Henri's Field

live chats & open days

Get to know our College, our faculty and our programmes with these online and offline events.

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flexible learning models

We offer pathways to learning to suit all needs – including part time routes, single modules, and blended learning models.

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postgraduate programmes

Regenerative Food, Farming and Enterprise

Schumacher College: Postgraduate Courses, Start Date: January

This radical new course is designed to help you develop your knowledge and understanding of resilient human-scale food systems and learn the skills needed to design, influence or develop resilient, productive food-based networks and businesses of your own. With an ecological and systemic approach, you will carve out a path towards making a positive contribution to the food economy.

Regenerative Economics

Schumacher College: Postgraduate Courses, Start Date: September

Regenerative Economics challenges and offers alternative perspectives to mainstream economics programmes – by looking through the lens of ecology as if both people and planet mattered equally.

Movement, Mind and Ecology

Schumacher College: Postgraduate Courses, Start Date: June

Explore the rich intersection of embodied practice, environmental philosophy and ecological thinking with this distinctive new course. The first of its kind, the MA programme encourages you to use your own physical engagement with the world to reshape your understanding of place, nature, self and society, with the help of world-renowned experts from a wide range of physical pursuits.

Holistic Science

Schumacher College: Postgraduate Courses, Start Date: January

This long-running and dynamic course with an emphasis on experiential learning equips students with the knowledge and skills to address our many challenges through an understanding of holism and the emergent properties of whole systems.

Engaged Ecology

Schumacher College: Postgraduate Courses, Start Date: January

A radical programme for students looking to reconsider their relationship with the more-than-human and find solutions to the environmental and social crises of our time. The course equips you with the skills to engage practically in the field, while also allowing you the time and space to develop a personal understanding of the interconnected nature of the world.

Ecological Design Thinking

Schumacher College: Postgraduate Courses, Start Date: September

Be active and transformative within organisations, communities, economics and education as we meet the challenge of transitioning to low carbon, high well-being and resilient places and systems. Never has there been a more important time for a new approach to design.

undergraduate programmes

Regenerative Food and Farming

Schumacher College: Undergraduate Courses

The BSc in Regenerative Food and Farming gives you the opportunity to explore leading-edge alternatives to mainstream agricultural practices and food systems, through a programme of integrated experiential learning, study alongside expert faculty and practitioners, meaningful work placement, and guided independent projects.

research at dartington

We offer research degrees in partnership with University of Westminster CREAM. Our researchers have expertise in a wide range of topics including arts practice-led research; animism; medieval literature; modernism; story and myth; arts, design and ecology; ecology and spirituality; Goethean science; regenerative economics, farming and food; social work with adults and children; and social enterprise.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF SCHUMACHER COLLEGE

A programme of events and initiatives to mark 30 years of leading the way in transformative education – spearheaded by our Bursary Campaign, which aims to equip the next generation with the tools to address the social, environmental and economic challenges we all face.

Find out more >

more from schumacher

Short Courses

A unique brand of small-group experiences which embrace the learning through head, hand, and heart.

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Horticulture Programmes

Our horticultural students join a rich, six month immersive programme learning how to grow food in a way that maintains and restores soil and ecosystem health.

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