You will not come to Hampshire to pursue a major. Instead, you'll choose the faculty advisors you'll work with to create your own curriculum addressing the big question, challenge, or issue you're most interested in.
You'll work across, between, and without disciplines—and you'll curate your own original course of study. You'll be challenged with the freedom to formulate questions never asked before.
You advance through a divisional structure rather than traditional school years. Each Division requires a portfolio review, including narrative feedback from each course, final papers and projects, community-engaged learning, other meaningful work, and a retrospective, capped off by a yearlong Div III project of your own design.
We've launched a bold new curriculum organized around four Learning Collaboratives. Through these collaboratives, we bring disciplines together to address the pressing issues facing society today. And as global challenges shift, so do the topics of our collaboratives. We evolve and change to reflect the world around us.
The Hampshire experience prepares you to understand problems deeply, research and investigate, collaborate, and tackle real issues instead of hypothetical ones. The world looks to Hampshire graduates for leadership in hundreds of fields. How will the world look to you?
Hampshire’s founders were leaders from Amherst, Smith, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They set out to create a lab of an undergraduate institution, experimenting with how a college could be a more effective intellectual and moral force in the world.
You will not come to Hampshire to pursue a major. That's right. No majors. No departments. Instead, you'll work across, between, and without disciplines—and you'll combine fields to curate your own original course of study.
At Hampshire, you’ll be encouraged to work closely with professors, collaborate on research, and coauthor academic articles in your area of interest, giving you a tremendous advantage in your field. Through continual mentorship, you’ll always have an expert and seasoned resource to help guide and organize your thinking.
Associate Professor of Dance and Performance Curation
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of History and Global Migrations
