Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College, a liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is the oldest women's college in the United States, and the oldest continuing institution of women's higher education in the world.

General information

Mount Holyoke enrolls approximately 2,100 undergraduates. Approximately eighteen percent of students are African American, Latina, Asian American, or Native American. Fifteen percent are international students.

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• Firms: The firms that most frequently hire Mount Holyoke graduates are: Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, AmeriCorps, National Economic Research Associates, Brigham and Women's Hospital, New York City Department of Education, Boston University, Credit Suisse First Boston, and The Dana Farber Center Institute http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drservices_2192_brief.php.
• Graduate Schools: The graduate schools most attended by MHC alumnae are: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, and Tufts http://www.mtholyoke.edu/adm/whymhc/collegeprofile.shtml.
• Scholarships/Fellowships: Mount Holyoke counts among its alumnae recepients of the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Fulbright, Gates/Cambridge, Udall, Beineke, and Datatel Scholarships.

Mount Holyoke offers a wide range of majors and academic programs. In addition, Mount Holyoke students may enroll in classes at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Smith College, and University of Massachusetts Amherst through the Five Colleges (Massachusetts) exchange.

Related Topics:
Amherst College - Hampshire College - Smith College - University of Massachusetts Amherst - Five Colleges (Massachusetts)

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The college has a long - standing commitment to women in the sciences and offers a dual-degree program in engineering in conjunction with either the California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, or the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It also has a dual-degree program with the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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California Institute of Technology - Dartmouth College - University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Mount Holyoke offers a variety of programs for international students. It also offers undergraduate opportunities for women of a non-traditional age (over 25) through the Frances Perkins Program.

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Many prominent writers have studied at Mount Holyoke. One of the first was poet Emily Dickinson. Two of the more recent alumnae are the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Wendy Wasserstein (whose 1977 play Uncommon Women and Others explored the lives, both during and after college, of five Mount Holyoke alumnae) and Suzan-Lori Parks. The prestigious Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Competition, past winners including Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, has called Mount Holyoke home since 1923 http://collegenews.org/x2504.xml.

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Emily Dickinson - Wendy Wasserstein - Uncommon Women and Others - Suzan-Lori Parks - Sylvia Plath - Robert Lowell

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Mount Holyoke's bucolic 800-acre campus regularly places on The Princeton Review's list of the "Ten Most Beautiful College Campuses in America," capturing first place in 1997 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/970905/beautiful.html. The campus was designed and landscaped between 1896 and 1922 by the landscape architecture firm of Olmstead and Sons. In addition to the Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden, the grounds feature two lakes, a waterfall, tennis courts, stables and woodland riding trails, all surrounding "the green" (the grassy lawn in the center of campus). The green is framed by traditional ivy-covered, red brick dormitories, Skinner Hall, and the social hub, Blanchard Student Center.http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/map/.

Related Topics:
The Princeton Review's - Olmstead and Sons - Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden

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Mount Holyoke is also home to a professional golf course, The Orchards, which served as host to the U.S. Women's Open Championship (golf)

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in 2004 http://www.uswomensopen.com/2004/index.html. Golf Digest has ranked The Orchards as the second-best college course in the country http://www.golfdigest.com/features/index.ssf?/features/gd200509collegegolf2.html.

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The SAT has been under review by the college since 2000. Submission of test scores by applicants to Mount Holyoke also became optional at that time http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2000/07/10/story4.html , http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=100356&format=

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