Fast Facts

Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women. Mount Holyoke is renowned for educating women leaders, from medical pioneers to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights.

Reputation

Mount Holyoke College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review Guide's 2011 edition of its annual guidebook, The Best 373 Colleges. Mount Holyoke ranked first in the category of "best classroom experience," and was highly rated in other categories, including "most politically active students" (#3), "most beautiful campus" (#7), and "school runs like butter (#9). More about MHC's profile in The Best 373 Colleges...

Students

Our 2,200 students hail from 48 states and nearly 70 countries. Twenty percent of MHC students are international citizens, and 28 percent of domestic students identify as African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, or multiracial. Sixty-two percent of incoming first-year students were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. More about who studies at MHC...

Majors

• 48 departmental and interdepartmental majors
• Option to design your own major
• 33 percent of all majors are interdisciplinary
• Majors of current MHC students: humanities, 32 percent; social sciences, 42 percent; natural and applied sciences, 26 percent

Class Size

• 15 percent of classes have 10 or fewer students
• 64 percent have 20 or fewer
• 82 percent have 25 or fewer

Student-to-Faculty Ratio

• 9 to 1

After College

Six months after graduation, 84 percent of the class of 2009 were working or in school. Of those students, 21 percent were attending graduate/professional schools of their choice. Typically, 75 percent of MHC graduates enroll in graduate/professional school within ten years. More about what our graduates are doing...

SAT Policy

Given the limitations of the SAT as a predictor of student success, Mount Holyoke College does not require applicants to submit SAT scores. More about Mount Holyoke’s SAT policy...

2011-2012 Costs

2011-2012 Costs
Tuition:	$41,270
Room and Board:	12,140
Student Activities Fee:	186
Total:	$53,596

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