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Connecticut College, a highly selective private liberal arts college. Chartered 1911 as Connecticut College for Women. Coed since 1969. New London derives many benefits from the presence of the college, a few of the most popular and tangible are

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a separate institution but is located on the Connecticut College Campus. Housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection of over 15,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, furniture, decorative arts, and American art from the 18th through 20th centuries.

The Williams School

United States Coast Guard Academy

Ye Antientist Burial Ground, circa 1652. Not only a significant repository of the first generation of New London's settlers, but an open air museum of the early stonecutter's art as well. A remarkable variety of different carving schools.