oakridge college - ivy and timber quad
Oakridge College

Knowledge, with pine in the air.

A small land-sciences and liberal-arts college that has been quietly absorbing the town's edges for seventy-nine years.

The college · est. 1947

Oakridge began in 1918 as the Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land Sciences on the former Hartwell estate, and grew, in the unhurried way of the coast, into a full college.

Its students give Briarmont its restless, hopeful energy; its archives preserve the town’s long memory. The full history - the Hartwell estate, the founding of the institute, and Oakridge’s slow growth into a college - is documented in The Archive.

Read the college history in The Archive →
1947chartered
~600students
Botanicalflagship lab
oakridge quad - ivy & timber