OpenFieldMount Holyoke · South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
Mount Holyoke College is a prestigious private liberal arts college for women and gender-diverse students in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The oldest of the historic Seven Sisters institutions and a member of the Five College Consortium.
Mount Holyoke offers 48 departmental and interdepartmental majors with cross-registration at Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, and UMass Amherst. World-class facilities include the Miller Worley Center for the Environment and Kendade Hall for Science.
Admissions are highly competitive, evaluating high school academic rigor, writing samples, intellectual curiosity, and letters of recommendation under a long-standing test-optional policy.
Rigorous undergraduate computing education emphasizing algorithmic fairness, artificial intelligence ethics, full-stack software development, and Five College cross-registration.
Interdisciplinary program examining neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology, synaptic electrophysiology, and neurodegenerative disorders.
Focuses on climate justice, urban ecology, environmental jurisprudence, renewable energy transition, and ecological economics.
Intensive laboratory-based program in enzymology, macromolecular structural biology, spectroscopic techniques, and biophysical chemistry.
Explores multilateral diplomacy, global human rights regimes, international political economy, post-colonial statecraft, and international conflict resolution.
Awarded to incoming students demonstrating extraordinary academic achievement, creative vision, and leadership in social change.
President and Professor of Politics
Office of the President
Dr. Danielle R. Holley serves as the 20th President of Mount Holyoke College, an esteemed legal scholar specializing in constitutional law and educational equit...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Psychology and Education
Department of Psychology and Education
Dr. Becky Wai-Ling Packard conducts groundbreaking research on mentoring, STEM persistence among first-generation and women scholars, and inclusive laboratory c...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Biological Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Craig Woodard investigates the molecular genetics of steroid hormone signaling, developmental biology in Drosophila melanogaster, and gene regulation mechan...
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