Academics at Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke exists to open minds. It’s where you explore new ideas, let your imagination run wild, debate vigorously and have the freedom to examine any topic or issue — no matter how controversial or polarizing. And like the brave, bold women who have come before you, we promise you this: After four years, everything will be different — including you.
Liberal Arts and STEM: Making Impact
The oldest of the Seven Sister colleges, we are a noted leader in liberal arts education with a mission grounded in the conviction that women can — and should — make a difference in the world. The learning landscape at Mount Holyoke is shaped as much by curiosity and intensity as it is by collaboration and guidance. Here you’ll find people who brim with passion.
Mount Holyoke is a leader in STEM
The Arts at Mount Holyoke
The Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab
What do you want to study?
48 departmental and interdepartmental majors
Top Majors: What makes them popular?
Professional and Graduate Education
Enhance Your Learning
Dive deep into a subject and build specific expertise in your field. Our Lynk initiative provides funding for every student to complete a paid internship or research project — domestic or abroad. Work across disciplines in your classes and through independent study.
The Lynk: Curriculum to career
Nexus: Connect your courses to career goals
Leadership and Public Service
Faculty Research and Mentorship
Mount Holyoke’s faculty are active scholars, research scientists and creative artists who are passionate about their disciplines and their teaching. In small classes they will lead you to debate and discuss, challenging you and your classmates. You will be pushed to think critically and become a fearless advocate for yourself and what you believe in. Learn not just to face change, but to lead it.
Princeton Review: Mount Holyoke faculty #1
Meet our newest faculty
Faculty News and Honors
Learn about some of the research our faculty are doing
Major grant for dance research
Barbie Diewald, assistant professor of dance at Mount Holyoke College, is on a team of researchers looking to quantify dance with computer-based tools.
Vaping perils
Maternal vaping affects offspring’s brains, says Associate Professor Jared Schwartzer of Mount Holyoke.
Evolution could lead to odd animals in future
Mount Holyoke College Assistant Professor Patricia Brennan discusses what evolution could mean for animals on a hotter, drier future Earth.
Fresh batch of Apollo 11 moon rocks for Dyar
Mount Holyoke professor Darby Dyar discusses her work with moon rocks on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s launch.
Is Venus the new Mars?
Exploration of Venus could cast light on why planets become habitable, says Mount Holyoke’s Darby Dyar.
International Learning
Global competence is a must today, for citizenship and careers. Study abroad in one of more than 150 programs in 50 countries. Whatever you choose — language immersion, field studies, or a traditional classroom-based experience — you can find a program that gives you a powerful personal and intellectual experience to advance your academics.
Reflections on studying abroad in Japan
K. J. Lewis ’22 shares her experience in the Hokkaido International Foundation’s Japanese Language and Culture Program and the advice she received from Professor of Asian Studies Naoko Nemoto before she went.
Oh the places you will go… when you go to Mount Holyoke!
Donari Yahzid ’19 discusses how her experience at MHC Preview weekend helped her choose Mount Holyoke over the larger, co-ed, west coast colleges she was interested in. And how Mount Holyoke helped her travel the world and experience the unexplainable.
Getting ahead of the game by way of Geneva
Geneva is the place for development studies, say seniors Javeria Kella and Davan O’Donnell, who are the first in Mount Holyoke’s new B.A./M.A. program.
Lessons in Identity, Culture, and Language in Cameroon
For Olivia Lucas ’18, multilingualism was her gateway to a new culture and experience of identity.
What Costa Rica Taught Her
Cat Lamond ’18 spent six months of her junior year at the world renowned Monteverde Institute (MVI) in Costa Rica.
After Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke gets you where you want to go, in fields including medicine, law, business, social justice, communications, education and the arts. Within 10 years of graduating, nearly 80% of alums pursue an advanced degree at top-level institutions. Plus, you’ll join the most influential professional women’s network in the world: graduates of women’s colleges. Nearly 40,000 passionate Mount Holyoke alums around the globe are eager to welcome you to their midst.
Get to know some of our alums
Erica Lutes ’02: Inspiring impact abroad
Inspired by the College’s focus on community service, Erica Lutes ’02 makes a difference at home and abroad.
Tarana Bhatia ’15: Recruiting future leaders
Shaped by her experience at Mount Holyoke, Tarana Bhatia ’15 uses her varied volunteer roles to represent, recruit and inspire others.
Alice Capson ’71: a passion for giving back
It was at Mount Holyoke that Alice Capson ’71 recognized the importance of speaking up when something is not right.
Caroline Griep ’86: Connecting through music
For Caroline Griep ’86, music connects her to students and alums across generations.
Anh Hoang-Lindsay ’06: the tech connection
Anh Hoang-Lindsay ’06 credits Mount Holyoke with helping her become a biotech executive. Now she uses the College’s Gates platform to help others.
Academic Centers
Want to become an agent of change? The academic centers at Mount Holyoke empower you to become globally competent, environmentally responsible and ready to lead. Each center can connect you to internships, programs, funding — and most importantly, inspiration and vision.
McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives
Weissman Center for Leadership
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