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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

Difference Makers

Hamilton students learn how they can have the greatest impact, and then they step up and take action. Our student-athletes' recent volunteering effort benefited several local communities.

Read About NESCAC Day of Service

Conversation Catalysts

Our students find creative ways to facilitate important discussions. One group concerned about sustainability recently organized an event that did just that.

More about the Sustainability Fair

Collaborative Problem Solvers

Great minds think differently — just ask members of our Coding Club. Their greatest successes have come when they learn from each other and can tackle problems as a team.

Coding Club Prepares for Competition

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.