Admissions
Thank you for your interest in Hampshire College!
As a student you will join a diverse community who thirst for meaningful education, want authentic assessment beyond grades, seek to pose compelling questions, and want to collaborate with faculty and peers.
Here you'll learn to connect ideas—and to put them into action. You'll build an education that reflects your passions and your goals.
There is no other college that approaches undergraduate learning this way.
Hampshire's admissions process is personalized and holistic. The criteria used to make admission decisions draws on years of research into the qualities and characteristics of students who thrive here.
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Contact us at admissions@hampshire.edu or 413.559.5471.
The U.S. State Department and the Chronicle of Higher Education named Hampshire College a top producer of Fulbright Scholars for 2016-17.
"There are two reasons why Hampshire graduates achieve so much. One is the kind of person the college attracts. The other is what the college does for them by equipping them to become their own wide-ranging explorers and connection-seekers."Loren Pope, Colleges that Change Lives (2006)
Hampshire College is a member of Colleges that Change Lives, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and support of a student-centered college search process.