The Five College Consortium

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. Part of the plan: share the resources of all five schools. Together, we make up the Five College Consortium.

One of the country's most exciting and active educational collaborations, the Consortium enables our students to enjoy:

• Expanded course options: more than 5,000 from which to choose.

• One of the largest library collections in the country (28 libraries with more than nine million books).

• More than 900 student organizations and activities and some 3,400 events each year open to all.

• A free bus system connecting the Five Colleges and three towns, day and night.

• Recruiting by almost 500 companies.

Five College Departments and Majors

• Architectural Studies (Five College major)
• Astronomy (Five College department)
• Dance (Five College department)
• Film Studies (Five College major)

Certificate Programs (similar to a minor)

• African Studies
• Asian/Pacific/American Studies
• Biomathematics
• Buddhist Studies
• Coastal and Marine Sciences
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Culture, Health, and Science
• Ethnomusicology
• International Relations
• Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
• Logic
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies
• Reproductive Health Rights and Justice
• Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)
• Sustainability

Programs, Committees, and Councils

• African Studies
• Anthropology
• Arabic Language Initiative
• Art
• Asian/Pacific/American Studies
• Coastal and Marine Sciences
• Culture, Health, and Science
• Early Music Program
• East Asian Languages Program (EALP)
• Ethnomusicology
• Film Studies
• Geology
• History (UMass/Five College Graduate Program in History)
• International Relations
• Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
• Five College Mentored and Supervised Independent Language Program
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Multicultural Theater
• Music
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Physics
• Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)
• Statistics
• Supervised Independent Language Program
• Sustainability Studies
• Theater

Five College Resources

• Academic Calendar
• Bus Schedule
• Catalog of Five College Museums
• Course Listings
• Libraries