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Hamilton will prepare you for a life of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.

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Explore your passions
Expand your perspectives
Express yourself
Expect opportunity

Hamilton will prepare you for a life of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.

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Explore your passions
Expand your perspectives
Express yourself
Expect opportunity

Explore your passions

With a distinctive open curriculum and more than 50 areas of study, Hamilton provides you with the freedom, responsibility, and opportunity to create an individualized plan of study.

Open Curriculum

Freedom to discover your academic interests

Hamilton is one of the few U.S. colleges with an open curriculum, which means you’ll have the freedom to choose courses that reflect your interests or pursue new ideas.

Areas of Study

Expand your perspectives

At Hamilton, you’ll meet people from various backgrounds who — like you — are academically adventurous and eager to engage with new ideas.

Expand Your Perspectives

Learn From Each Other

Come to Hamilton prepared to share your opinions, challenge assumptions, and, yes, disagree respectfully. Alumni tell us the people they came to know on College Hill changed their lives and remain among their closest friends.

Expand your perspectives

At Hamilton, you’ll meet people from various backgrounds who — like you — are academically adventurous and eager to engage with new ideas.

Expand Your Perspectives

Learn From Each Other

Hamilton for Life

Alumni are proud to be part of the Hamilton community. They generously fund scholarships, new facilities, and a multitude of programs, visit campus and classes to speak with students, and offer internship and job opportunities. When you graduate and start your post-college life in a new city (or continent), Hamilton alumni will be there to help you get started.

After Hamilton

Destination: The World

Our international and domestic study programs will provide you with new perspectives and new ways to challenge yourself. About two-thirds of Hamilton students study off campus before graduating.

Global Learning

Common Ground

Our widely acclaimed Common Ground program brings well-known speakers to campus to participate in small classroom dialogues and large event discussions about contemporary issues while modeling respectful dialogue from different perspectives.

About Common Ground

Express yourself

Communicating well provides evidence of your ability to think well. See how Hamiltonians express themselves through:

Digital Fluency

Writing

Speaking

Arts

Expect Opportunity

We ensure that a Hamilton education is accessible to the most talented students from around the world, and that all students have equal access to our incredible resources.