Williams College
Founded 1793. Consistently ranked the top US liberal arts college, tutorial system inspired by Oxford.
Overview
Chartered with a bequest from Colonel Ephraim Williams, the college opened in the Berkshires and now typically tops US liberal arts rankings. Its tutorial system pairs two students with one professor weekly in the Oxford manner, across about 60 courses yearly. Mark Hopkins' famed log with a student on the other end describes its teaching ethos. Alumni include Nobel laureates and numerous Rhodes scholars. The chapel and Hopkins observatory anchor a mountain-valley campus of about 2,000 students. Winter study month sends students from ice climbing to Wall Street shadowing. Alumni include a Nobel economist and forty rhodes-era scholars' lineage.
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