Hampshire College

The Five College consortium, one of the oldest and most successful consortia in the country, provides an extraordinarily rich set of academic and cultural resources as it connects the Pioneer Valley's 30,000 undergraduate students.

Hampshire students are encouraged to use the vast curriculum, faculty, and library resources offered by the other members of the consortium:
Amherst College
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Each year more than 6,000 courses are available to students in the Five College system at no extra charge; a convenient free bus system provides transportation among the campuses.

Along with the course interchange program, the Five Colleges jointly sponsor

• faculty exchanges
• visiting lecturers
• a public broadcasting radio station
• an interlibrary network

All students have open stack access and borrowing privileges at Five College libraries, which collectively house almost nine million volumes.

In addition, the collective resources of the five institutions allow interdisciplinary study in many areas, including environmental studies, film, legal studies, and neuroscience.