Schumacher College is an international 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 develop practical skills and strategic thinking required to face 21st century challenges.
The College has a rich history as a trailblazer in ecological learning, and is this year celebrating its 30th birthday.
ABOUT US: Read more about our history and ethos >
live chats & open days
Get to know our College, our faculty and our programmes with these online and offline events.
flexible learning models
We offer pathways to learning to suit all needs – including part time routes, single modules, and blended learning models.
postgraduate programmes
Regenerative Food, Farming and Enterprise
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF SCHUMACHER COLLEGE
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Short Courses
A unique brand of small-group experiences which embrace the learning through head, hand, and heart.
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.
virtually schumacher
– Ongoing series of live chats with course tutors
– Podcasts
– Video archive – including our long-running Earth Talks series
latest news & blogs
Zero-miles food takes on a whole new dimension at Dartington a with brand new polytunnel
Head Gardener Colum Pawson writes on the epic effort to create a gigantic polytunnel by a team of students and staff from Schumacher College – with the structure taking over a month to build.
The kind of economics we need right now
Lecturer in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College, Jay Tompt, writes that after the events of the past 18 months the message is clear: we need an economics that “affirms life”.
Dr Nathan Einbinder joins academic faculty
We’re delighted to announce that Dr Nathan Einbinder has now joined the academic faculty at Dartington Trust to lead on our Regenerative Food and Farming programmme.