Established in 1793 with funds bequeathed by Colonel Ephraim Williams, the college is private, residential, and liberal arts, with graduate programs in the history of art and in development economics. The undergraduate enrollment is approximately 2,000 students. Fraternities were phased out beginning in 1962. Coeducation was adopted in 1970. The school color is purple. The mascot is the Purple Cow. There are three academic divisions (humanities, sciences, social sciences), 24 departments, 33 majors, plus concentrations and special programs. The student:faculty ratio is 8:1. The academic year consists of two four-course semesters plus a one-course January term. Williamstown is located in the Berkshires in northwestern Massachusetts, 135 miles from Boston and 165 miles from New York City.
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, or as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel-and to dare, to do, and to suffer.
Programs
African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Arabic, Art, Art History, Asian Studies, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Chemistry, Chinese, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Dance, Economics, Engineering, English, Environmental Studies, French, Genomics, Geoscience, German, Greek, History, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, International Studies, Italian, Japanese, Jewish Studies, Latin, Legal Studies, Liberal Arts, Marine Science, Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Economy, Political Science, Proteomics, Psychology, Religion, Russian, Sociology, Spanish, Statistics, Theatre, Women and Gender Studies
Campus type
Normal
Carnegie
Baccalaureate Colleges - Arts & Sciences
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