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Hampshire College
Mission Statement:
Education at Hampshire College prepares students to understand and participate responsibly in a complex world. Through its actions and policies, the college sets an example of the responsible and creative behavior it expects of its students.
As a liberal arts college, Hampshire helps students develop confidence in their intellect, creativity, and values. It encourages their desire to be lifelong learners and their capacity to advance the cause of social justice and the well being of others. The college fosters these attitudes through: a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural curriculum; self-initiated, individual programs of study negotiated with faculty mentors; students’ active participation in original research; and the diverse communities, on campus and off, in which learning takes place. Within the college’s residential community students encounter and learn to respect difference and appreciate diversity, thereby enhancing their capacity to live together well.
Through commitment to testing and evaluating new ideas and new approaches to learning, national efforts to promote inquiry-based learning and teaching, and constructive civic and social engagement, Hampshire's actions serve as models for those of its students.
Address:
893 West St
Amherst, MA 01002-5001
Phone:
General: (413) 549-4600
Admissions: (413) 559-5471
Financial aid: (413) 559-5484
Degrees offered:
Agriculture, GeneralClassification:
Type: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Highest degree offered: Bachelors
Carnegie class: Baccalaureate Colleges--Liberal Arts
These institutions are primarily undergraduate colleges with major emphasis on baccalaureate programs. They award at least half of their baccalaureate degrees in liberal arts fields.
Enrollment Information:
| Total enrollment: | 1352 | ||
| Total undergraduate: | 1352 | ||
| Total graduate: | 0 | ||
| Total professional: | 0 | ||
| Total full-time: | 1352 | ||
| Full-time undergraduate: | 1352 | ||
| Full-time graduate: | 0 | ||
| Full-time professional: | 0 | ||
| Total part-time: | 0 | ||
| Part-time undergraduate: | 0 | ||
| Part-time graduate: | 0 | ||
| Part-time professional: | 0 | ||
| Men total: | 573 | ||
| Women total: | 779 | ||
| Nonresident alien: | 43 | (03.18%) | |
| American Indian/Alaska Native: | 5 | (00.37%) | |
| Asian or Pacific Islander: | 49 | (03.62%) | |
| Black non-Hispanic: | 43 | (03.18%) | |
| Hispanic: | 71 | (05.25%) | |
| White non-Hispanic: | 971 | (71.82%) | |
| Race/ethnicity unknown: | 170 | (12.57%) |
