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 2009 edition of its annual book, The Best 368 Colleges. Its rankings place the all-women's liberal arts college in the company of Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities when it comes to the quality of both the students' classroom experience and the College library. More about MHC's profile in The Best 368 Colleges...

Students
Our 2,200 students hail from 48 states and nearly 70 countries. One in three students is an international citizen or African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, or multiracial. Thirty-six percent of incoming first-year students were in the top 5 percent of their high school classes. More about who studies at MHC...

Majors

• 49 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
10 to 1

After College
Six months after graduation, 86 percent of the class of 2008 were working or in school. Of those students, 16 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...

2009-2010 Costs

MHC is still an investment you can afford...