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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.
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Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley : Amherst College , Smith College , Mount Holyoke College , and the University of Massachusetts Amherst .
From the nuts and bolts of the application process to deeper conversations around the academic and student experience, we are here to help you throughout the entire process.
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.
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.
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.
As a Hampshire international student, you’ll also enjoy the diversity of Amherst, Massachusetts, a community with more than 30,000 undergraduate students from all over the world who make up the Five College Consortium.
To be eligible to apply as a first-year student you must have received, or be on track to receive, a high school diploma or high school equivalency and be 17 years of age or older at the time of enrollment.
