A non-profit institution for girls only Saint-Mary-of-The-Woods-College offers associate, plus bachelor and master degrees. The university has a menu of exciting degree courses in subjects related to the arena of horses, including:

General Equine Studies: This major program endows students with amazing flexibility which will enable them to go into the majority of the fields linked with the equine industry. Once students have made up their minds on their majors, they get help from their counsellors in selecting electives that will be most suitable given the student’s future plans. Students who haven’t yet determined further education and professional paths are given masses of scope to explore possibilities while they go through classes in equine science, riding instruction, coaching, stable management and business. Students can opt for an Equine Studies Bachelor Degree or an Equine Studies Associate Degree. They can also decide to Minor in Equine Studies.

Equine Coaching & Instruction: This degree course is designed for those scholars who nurse ambitions about teaching equitation or about developing personal training philosophies that they can apply to business and enterprises they set up after finishing graduation. This course’s subjects include equitation theory, equestrian school design and selection of school horses and their maintenance. Scholars who complete this course graduate as Bachelors, with an Equine Coaching & Instruction Degree.

Equine Business Management: This programme is open to all, but specific to scholars nursing ambitions about creating their own business in the equine world. This course lays a wonderful academic foundation for students and combines it with in depth practical experience. This program enables scholars to work on robust plans for business, on market strategies and on managerial skills. Students are also taught legal and financial issues that have relevancy to the pony industry.

Therapeutic Riding? The College set up a programme for therapeutic riding called ‘Mounted Miracles’ in 2000. This programme provides high quality horseback therapeutic sessions to people suffering from a selection of ailments. Scholars are taught to treat such individuals by helping them develop keen independence, while subjecting them at the same time to physical rehabilitation measures like improving muscle tone through a regime of vigorous coordination and motion.

Students are also inspired to attempt to get into the College’s Equestrian Team. This team is an affiliate of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association and takes part in both Eastern and Western style riding competitions all thru the year. The team participates in about 20 events every year. Students who freak out on joy and thrill of competition at shows should join the team, regardless of whether they don’t have their own horses. In these events, riders and horses are paired through a draw. This usually helps create level playing arenas that can be extremely challenging, because no student is given a horse she has ridden before.

The Varsity owns a phenomenal equestrian facility boasting of features like:

– 55 stalls

– 2 barns

– 2 bathrooms

– 3 tack rooms

– 3 offices

– 4 stalls for grooming

– 2 stalls for washing

– A lab building

– An inside arena of 90 x 150 feet with bleacher seating

– An area for therapeutic riding

– An outside arena of 150 x 250 feet

– Two buildings for story announcement

– Space for beachers

– 6 general-use pastures

– 40 acres of prime land.

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