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Our collaborative approach to learning allows us to urgently tackle our world's most complex challenges. At Hampshire, you're guided by esteemed and expert faculty members as you pursue your individual questions, generate original research, and prepare to make lasting impact. Explore Student and Alum Projects.
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The areas of study below represent a range of course offerings and faculty expertise on our campus, as well as classes in our Five College Consortium. Instead of choosing from a list of majors, you’ll work with your committee to customize a major.
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Faced with a Changing world, we changed the way college works. Now, we're scrapping THE TIRED. structures of education altogether. Hampshire College. Radical, positive change. Do Something Different. Find YourSelf out here. Disrupting Higher Education for 50 Years.
At Hampshire, we’re empowering students to direct their own paths, then follow them out. So you can identify a challenge, mobilize resources, integrate diverse contexts, collaborate, experiment, successfully propose a solution, and make something happen.
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