Experience Phillips Exeter Academy in Virtual Reality

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Exeter’s rich and varied interfaith communities have a place to worship and seek peace.
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Phillips Church is our central hub for spiritual life on campus.
Religious or spiritual affiliation doesn’t matter – all are welcome at Phillips Church.
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The community gathers weekly to hear a personal reflection known as meditation.
Day students and boarders enjoy meal variety provided by two dining halls, a snack bar and local cafes!
Dorms can be big halls (with up to 60 students) or small homes with 10 to 15 residents.
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Even math (shown), is taught in the Harkness method, the collaborative learning style that defines life here.
Exeter offers many opportunities (450 classes! Dozens of study abroad options!) for independent study.
Exeter, NH, has shops, cafes, a riverfront farm market and a train station with service to Boston.
Our residential system includes dorm-based advising, for built-in bonding and an easy commute to meetings.
Over 100 student-led clubs let you connect with like-minded peers and grow your leadership skills while making an impact.
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Pizza, smoothie and protein tents add to campus dining options.
Spanning four levels and seating 350, the Mainstage Theater includes three catwalks and an orchestra pit.
The Bowld performance hall gives concertgoers and musicians a vibrant space to enjoy.
The William Boyce Thompson Field House provides year-round training for our track and field teams.
When 12 students and 1 instructor engage in a Harkness discussion, listening and speaking carry the same weight.
With 17 curricular programs on 5 continents, and trips on breaks, students live and learn beyond campus.
An Exonian's home is their castle.
Dorm bonding is the best bonding, on campus or up the street at Exeter Bowling Lanes.
Each year, 25% of all Exeter students collaborate on theater productions!
Global programs are offered in all terms, and during school breaks. Here, a spring break trip to Cuba.
In Iceland over summer break, students explore climate change plus Icelandic culture, literature and history.
Love Gym is home to basketball and volleyball, an athletic training center and a sports science lab.
Our Dance Company has flourished in the new state-of-the-art Goel Center for Theater and Dance.
The Concert Choir (shown) and the Chamber Orchestra perform end-of-term concerts and go on tour off campus.
The White Mountains, including Mount Chocorua, are only a short bus ride away.
Three domed observatories and an astronomy classroom for beginner and experienced stargazers!
Cross-country teams and other student athletes use the four miles of running trails in the Academy woods.
Every student has an adviser and most teachers live on campus so they are close by when you need them.
Nearby beaches are a popular stop for field trips, Academy Life Day and the surfing club.
Teamwork and collaboration come in handy beyond the classroom!
The girls of Wheelwright Hall embrace Academy Life Day, an annual dorm celebration.
There are few pastimes as pleasurable as downtime with dormmates.
Whether you've played an instrument for years or want to try something new, we offer lessons in 30 instruments!
Academy Life Day each fall term allows for dorm residents to build camaraderie — and blow off steam.
Decorating dorm rooms is an art form at Exeter, and Exonians revel in self-expression.
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Our campus is loaded with spaces to find fun, relax and meet up with friends.
Phelps Stadium has synthetic turf, lighting for night competition, a training room and seating for 5,000.
Study in Berlin includes life sciences and environmental services, renewable energy, media and music.
The music media and technology suite is a state-of-the-art space for music research, listening and production.
At Exeter, discovery and learning happens in the classroom and around the world. Here, a term in Rome.
Big Red girls and boys soccer progams benefit from Exeter's 33 acres of playing fields.
Do you want to act, dance, direct, create sets, design costumes, manage the lights or control the audio? These's something for everyone in our theater and dance canter.
We have classes in technical theater and set design.
Big Red baseball plays its games on Amos Alonzo Stagg '85 Field in the heart of South Campus.
Hatch Field is home to Exeter's field hockey program and features a turf surface ideal for field hockey.
Newly minted Exeter grads raise diplomas after graduation on the Academy lawn.
One of our favorite — and messiest — rituals is celebrating the Hindu festival Holi on Wetherell quad.
One whole floor is for dancers, with dedicated practice and performance spaces.
Our "tech crew" assists in the creation of sets, props, costumes, lights and sound for theater and dance performances.
Our new light therapy room in the Class of 1945 Library keeps the winter doldrums at bay.
The Academy Building lawn is the site of the commencement ceremony each spring.
The last act of an Exeter senior is a walk across the dais to collect their diploma.
Big Red girls lacrosse, traditionally a regional power, plays its games on the turf of Phelps Stadium.
Elm Street Dining Hall is a hub of the student community.
Exonians have the opportunity to learn every facet of a theater production, including lighting and sound.
Our 25 residence halls — including the girls of Langdell Hall — teem with dorm pride.
The community gathers weekly to hear a personal reflection known as meditation.
Theater Mainstage Performance offers students the opportunity to use the skills they have learned in their theater classes and apply them on a major scale.
At Exeter, Harkness learning happens throughout campus.
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What is longest-serving girls dorm on campus? HOYT HALL!
Our Library Commons offers a variety of resources — even the four-legged kind during the occasional canine study break.
Our track includes long-jump pits, vault runways, a high-jump venue, shot and discus and javelin sectors.
The Exeter Clay Studio introduces students to methods used to create unique sculpture and tableware.
The Department of Art offers 12 courses in a variety of mediums in Mayer Art Center.
Water polo teams train and play in the Roger Nekton pool, which is equipped for live streaming home events.
Exeter tennis teams train and play matches on 14 new outdoor hard courts, with four indoor courts.
The Mayer Art Center houses studio-style fine arts classrooms for a variety of mediums, from painting and printmaking to photography and 3-D design.
Exeter's hockey teams benefit from two regulation-sized rinks to accommodate multiple practices and games.
Fisher Squash Center has 10 international-regulation courts, each with gallery space for 400 spectators.
Our portrait painting courses provide the opportunity to pursue individualized works on paper, canvas and more.
Student artwork adorns every building on campus.
Residential Life
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