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Hamilton will prepare you for a life of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.

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Study What You Love
Open Every Door
See the World Differently
Amplify Your Voice

Hamilton will prepare you for a life of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.

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Study What You Love
Open Every Door
See the World Differently
Amplify Your Voice

Study What You Love

With a distinctive open curriculum and more than 50 areas of study, Hamilton provides you with the freedom, responsibility, and opportunity to create an individualized plan of study.

Open Curriculum

Freedom to discover your academic interests

Hamilton is one of the few U.S. colleges with an open curriculum, which means you’ll have the freedom to choose courses that reflect your interests or pursue new ideas.

Areas of Study

Launch Experience

Start your journey with Hamilton’s Virtual Tour. Choose your own path through 20+ stops, 360° views, and videos that show what life on College Hill is like. Want more? Visit campus or watch our videos on YouTube.

Open Every Door

We ensure that a Hamilton education is accessible to the most talented students from around the world, and that all students have equal access to our incredible resources.

See What’s Possible at Hamilton

Student Research

Internship Stories

Internships, community partnerships, our personalized career program, and our extensive alumni network will prepare you to change the world.

What Graduates Take with Them

A few years ago, we asked new students what they brought from home to the Hill. As those same Hamiltonians prepared to graduate, we asked them what they were taking with them. Their answers trace a journey toward “Know Thyself.”

Hear from Recent Grads

From a canoe paddle to a guitar to a necktie, see the personal items students brought to Hamilton as reminders of home and hear about their experiences on the Hill.

What Graduates Take with Them

A few years ago, we asked new students what they brought from home to the Hill. As those same Hamiltonians prepared to graduate, we asked them what they were taking with them. Their answers trace a journey toward “Know Thyself.”

Hear from Recent Grads

From a canoe paddle to a guitar to a necktie, see the personal items students brought to Hamilton as reminders of home and hear about their experiences on the Hill.

NOW: Representing her journey, Siddiqui collected magnets from all the cities she visited while studying abroad.

Meet Ilsaa Siddiqui

What she brought to Hamilton:
A Squishmallow named Caeli, a gift exchanged with her best friend before they left for different colleges. During moments of homesickness, Caeli offered warmth and a tangible reminder of friendship across distance.

What she took away:
Through pursuing double majors, campus involvement, and studying in Spain – and visiting 20 cities across six countries while there – Ilsaa gained confidence, independence, and perspective. “I missed out on so much in high school because I was constantly grinding. When I came to college, I shifted my perspective about perfectionism.”

Read How Ilsaa Redefined Success

Meet Tim Colledge

What he brought to Hamilton:
A lucky tie worn at debate tournaments and gifted by his father — representing encouragement across distance, memories of home, and the confidence to step into unfamiliar rooms.

What he took away:
A broader way of thinking shaped by studying computer science alongside public policy, along with Morris House suitemates who headed to Chicago with him as he began his new job in systems engineering. “I’m so glad I’ll be moving with them to the next stage in life. I met a lot of people [at Hamilton] who are going to go off and do truly amazing things.”

Read How Tim Found His Voice

To commemorate her research, Abigail Lowder has a fruit fly tattooed on her arm, along with a snake that honors her late father, who was a herpetologist.

Meet Abigail Lowder

What she brought to Hamilton:
A 6-foot cardboard cutout of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a gift from a friend and a tribute to family traditions rooted in a shared love of horror. The familiar figure offered comfort, connection, and a sense of home as she settled into campus life.

What she took away:
Personal loss shaped Abigail’s path in neuroscience research, where she analyzed hundreds of fruit fly brains to understand what might go wrong and lead to cancer. “Embracing discomfort is something I’ll take away from Hamilton.” She later commemorated that work with a fruit fly tattoo, alongside a snake honoring her late father, a herpetologist.

Read How Abigail Turned Loss into Discovery

Amplify Your Voice

Communicating well provides evidence of your ability to think well. Alumni credit Hamilton’s emphasis on communication — across written, spoken, artistic, and digital ways of expressing ideas — with setting them apart after college.