Accreditation

The Master of Arts on Liberal Studies program operates under the auspicies of Skidmore's Office of the Dean of Special Programs and is fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. It is fully authorized by and responsible to The College Faculty and is administered under the jurisdiction of the MALS steering committee, as delegated by the faculty-at-large. Skidmore’s program also holds full memberhip in the national Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs.
Judy Burke
Judy Burke

“When I started looking into graduate schools, I wasn’t sure that I was master’s material….But the people I talked to at Skidmore were so enthusiastic about my ideas—they were so excited by my excitement that I started to believe I could do it.”