The Clark Experience is the promise we make to all undergraduate students at Clark — bringing together the exceptional education you’ll receive in the classroom with a thoughtfully integrated system of career preparation, skill building, hands-on learning, wellness resources, and community connections. Your unique journey will focus around your aspirations, support your boldest ideas, and empower you to lead a life of meaning and consequence.
Discover and demonstrate your purpose
Our biannual ClarkFEST event (above) offers the opportunity to showcase and discuss your research, creative works, and interactive media exhibits with the Clark community.
Reflect on your values, identities, motivations, and aspirations and align your personal Clark journey with who you are and who you want to be.
The Clark Experience in action
Students in the First-Year Intensive seminar, Water in the City, taught by Associate Professor of Geography Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Ph.D. ’03, tour the Pine Hill Dam.
Interactive media students work in a hands-on development environment called Game Studio, which culminates in a formal interactive title. Their ePortfolios document the games they helped create and serve as a narrative of their educational journey.
Cultivate close knit communities
You will build networks to broaden your efforts at Clark that position you for lifetime success.
The Clark Experience in action
“I feel like I’m making a steady impact, and I want to continue to grow in my advocacy, basketball career, and career in data science.”
—Chris Clarke ’27
Engage locally and globally
Dukilda Hasanllari ’23 and Angell Jean-Laurent ’24 and their fellow students have helped isolate more than 100 Synechococcus strains from water samples taken from Narragansett Bay. Students enrolled in The Genome Project, an undergraduate biology Problems of Practice course sequence genetic material from these single-celled microbes that carry out about 25 percent of the photosynthesis in the ocean.
You will have limitless opportunities to engage in real-world challenges, work collaboratively on campus and, if you choose, around the world.
The Clark Experience in action
To observe successful restoration efforts, students visited two former cranberry bogs just north of Cape Cod — the 128-acre Foothills Preserve and 60-acre Eel River Headwaters Restoration Project.
Students in the School of Business work with community members in Sierra Lione, Liberia, Kenya, Bangladesh, Jamaica, and Brazil to address issues ranging from supporting schools for children with special needs to helping farmers introduce sustainable agricultural practices.
Students in the course, Cultures of Exile, taught by Anita Fábos, worked in partnership with the local organization, African Community Education (ACE) to develop interactive maps, recipe videos, and urban farming solutions, as a way to strengthen Haitian and African cultural ties to foods from their homelands.
Develop your professional identity
Adrian Ramirez ’25, and Richard Geli, M.A. ’25, work on an experimental prototype of mobile robots networked together to scan fields for pests. The technology could help farmers locate and map areas with pest infestations.
You will put action and energy behind the skills and experiences you gain throughout your education to support your professional goals for life after Clark.
The Clark Experience in action
Computer science majors attend a career development professional networking event geared towards students preparing for careers in tech.
At Clark, you’ll find a community of mentors to guide you on your path. Your advisors will help you select courses, reflect on successes, and set goals. Your professors will help you gain hands-on experience in your chosen field.
Be a force for change.
Come study at a small research university with a strong liberal arts core.
