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Academics

Hamilton’s open curriculum gives you the freedom to choose courses that reflect your interests as you study broadly across the liberal arts.

  • Open Curriculum

    Most colleges have a core curriculum or distribution requirements; Hamilton does not.

    Learn About Our Curriculum
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  • Student Research

    High-level research will allow you to put into practice what you learn in the classroom.

    Explore Research Opportunities
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  • The Faculty

    Hamilton’s teacher-scholars actively engage in the intellectual lives of their students.

    Meet Our Faculty

    Areas of Study

    Hamilton offers 44 majors (we call them concentrations) and 58 total areas of study.

    See What We Offer
At Hamilton, you will explore your passions by taking classes and pursuing academic opportunities that align with your interests and goals. That might mean studying abroad, conducting independent research, or pursuing an internship. Plus, you’ll be supported by dozens of curricular and cocurricular resources designed to ensure your success.
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The Academic Experience

Whatever path you choose, you will become a critical and creative thinker, writer, and speaker — skills that will help you stand out no matter what path you pursue after graduation.

Guided Independence

Although our curriculum has relatively few requirements, professors have high expectations that you will make responsible, informed decisions about your intellectual development. Advisors will work with you to create an individualized plan of study that reflects your interests and abilities and Hamilton’s purposes and goals.

Faculty Advising
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Centers and Resources

Learn by Doing

Hamilton provides an increasing number of opportunities for students to engage in significant, often publishable, research in all disciplines. You might also explore your career interests through an internship, many of which include College-funded stipends.

Student Research
Student Internships
Digital Fluency

Destination: The World

Our international and domestic study programs will provide you with new perspectives and new ways to challenge yourself. About two-thirds of Hamilton students study off campus before graduating.

Global Learning

Campus Facilities

Academic Buildings Up Close

Our beautiful campus of more than 1,300 acres — known as College Hill — blends historic buildings and traditions with modern facilities and resources.

Photos and Videos

Inside & Outside the Classroom

Arathi Menon
Assistant Professor of Art History Arathi Menon teaches her class in at Wellin Museum of Art.
Students in Max Majireck's chemistry lab
Students in Associate Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck’s lab aim to discover safer and more sustainable methods for creating therapeutic proteins which, when used as imaging tools, could revolutionize the way life-threatening diseases are detected.
Thomas Wilson
Thomas Wilson, the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, teaches his Asian studies class in Kirner-Johnson Hall.
Students in a class with Mark Cryer
In the spacious acting studio, students emote with Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer.
Professor Anna Huff and a student in the digital arts studio
Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Anna Huff helps her students prepare for the next episode of TV CLUB.
Observatory
Leenie Wilcox and physics professor Adam Lark painted the Milky Way on the walls and ceiling of the solar classroom.
Class in the quad
Class in the quad.
wind farm
Professor of geosciences Cindy Domack’s class visits a wind farm.
Heather Kropp, professor of environmental studies using data science, teaches in her interactive computer lab class in Kirner-Johnson at Hamilton College on Thursday, February 4, 2021 in Clinton, NY. (PHOTO BY NANCY L. FORD)
Heather Kropp, assistant professor of environmental studies, uses data science to teach in her interactive computer lab class in Kirner-Johnson.
Knight and students discuss photography techniques
Associate Professor of Art teaches in a classroom in the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts.
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The AI-scripted and human-performed musical production Channelers, an interdisciplinary art project funded by the Dietrich Inchworm Grant.
Viva R. Horowitz
Students work with pressure rockets as part of their physics lab work with Professor Viva R. Horowitz. Video: Nick Ng ’23
Steve Wu
Economics professor Stephen Wu involves his students in projects like gun-control surveys for teenagers and in his research that focuses on health-care economics.

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