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Founded as a home for new ideas in higher education, Hampshire College is a 4-year liberal arts college in western Massachusetts. Hampshire challenges all students to create an individualized curriculum culminating in a year-long advanced study project.
Make your own way forward. At Hampshire, you have full ownership over what you want to study and what you want to achieve. You’ll move across disciplines and departments. You’ll be mentored from invested faculty, and you’ll forge something all your own. Academics.
Hampshire College was founded in 1965 to radically reimagine liberal arts education. Today, we’re more unconventional than ever, and we’re organized in a way that’s different from any other college in the world.
Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, is among the most innovative colleges in the country. Students at Hampshire pursue their passions by designing their own programs of study and recruiting a faculty committee to guide them on their path of intellectual discovery.
We don’t require an audition or portfolio to study art, theatre, or any discipline at Hampshire. Rather, Hampshire makes all admissions decisions based on your academic performance and fit. Once accepted, you have access to all programs, areas of study, and facilities.
Ready, Set, Explore. The areas of study below represent a range of course offerings and faculty expertise on our campus, as well as classes in our Five College Consortium. Instead of choosing from a list of majors, you’ll work with your committee to customize a major.
We launched a bold new curriculum and student experience, fundamentally reshaping a liberal arts education to match the needs of today’s students and the world. Hampshire’s model educates students for the challenges of jobs, graduate schools, entrepreneurship, and life.
