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A highly selective women’s liberal arts college, Mount Holyoke College has a global reputation for educating women who change the world. With 48 departmental and interdepartmental majors, including an option for students to design their own concentration of study, the college offers exceptional academic opportunities to its 2,200 talented, dynamic students. Mount Holyoke College is also a member of the Five College Consortium, a program which links its students to a collegiate community of some 30,000 students and a variety of academic opportunities at nearby Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

STUDENT PROFILE

# of degree-seeking undergraduates	2,258
% male/female	0/100
% African American	5
% American Indian or Alaska Native	<1
% Asian or Pacific Islander	7
% Hispanic	7
% Multiracial (non-Hispanic)	5
% White	49
% International	21
% Pell grant recipients	21.4

First generation and minority alumni Naomi Barry-Perez, civil rights lawyer, U.S. Department of Labor; Elaine Chao, former U.S. secretary of labor; Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; Gloria Johnson-Powell M.D., psychiatrist/author; Mona K. Sutphen, White House Deputy Chief of Staff

ACADEMICS

full-time faculty
225

full-time minority faculty
58

student-faculty ratio
9:1

average class size
20

% first-year retention rate
91

% graduation rate (6 years)
83

Popular majors Biology, English, International Relations, Psychology, Economics

CAMPUS LIFE

% live on campus (% freshmen)
94 (100)

Multicultural student clubs and organizations Arab/American and International Women’s Association, Asian American Sisters in Action, Asian Students Association, Association of Pan-African Unity, South Asian Club, Bulgarian Club, Chinese Cultural Association, Hawai’i Club, Korean American Sisters Association, La Unidad, Liga Filipina, Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries, Movimiento Estudiantial Chicano de Aztlan, African and Caribbean Student Association, Native Spirit, Romanian Student Association, Vietnamese Students Association, Zim Club (Zimbabweans)

Athletics NCAA Division III, NEWMAC Conference More on Athletics…

ADMISSIONS

# of applicants	3,359
% accepted	51
# of first-year students enrolled	540
SAT Critical Reading (middle 50%)	610-700
SAT Math (middle 50%)	580-690
SAT Writing (middle 50%)	620-710
ACT mean	29
average HS GPA	3.65
Deadlines
early decision I	11/15
early decision II	1/1
regular decision	1/15
application fee (online)	$60 ($60)
fee waiver for applicants with financial need	yes

For more information regarding admissions, please visit Mount Holyoke’s Admissions homepage.

COST & AID

tuition $41,270

room & board
$12,140

total need-based institutional scholarships/grants
$34,083,054

% of students apply for need-based aid
70

% of students receive iad
100

% receiving need-based scholarship/grant aid
70

% receiving aid whose need was fully met
100

average aid package
$35,854

average student loan debt upon graduation
$22,499

For more information regarding financial aid, please visit Mount Holyoke’s Financial Aid homepage.

When applying for Financial Aid, file your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) after January 1.

Scholarships

Mount Holyoke has a wide variety of scholarships, need and merit-based. For a complete listing of scholarships, please visit Mount Holyoke’s Scholarships homepage.