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Williams College

This article is about the college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. For other uses, see Williams College (disambiguation).

Williams College
MottoE liberalitate E. Williams, armigeri (Latin)
Motto in English
"Through the Generosity of E. Williams, Esquire"
TypePrivate liberal arts college
Established1793 (1793)
AccreditationNECHE
Academic affiliations
Endowment$3.53 billion (2022)[1]
Budget$279.9 million[1]
PresidentMaud Mandel
ProvostEiko Maruko Siniawer
Academic staff
360 (2021)[2]
Students2,171 (2021)[2]
Undergraduates2,121 (2021)[2]
Postgraduates50 (2021)[2]
Location
Williamstown, Massachusetts
,
US

42°42′45″N 73°12′18″W / 42.71250°N 73.20500°W / 42.71250; -73.20500
CampusRural, college town, 450 acres (180 ha)
Colors    Purple & gold[3]
NicknameEphs
Sporting affiliations
MascotEphelia, the Purple Cow[4]
Websitewww.williams.edu

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755. Williams's main campus is located in Williamstown, in the Berkshires in rural northwestern Massachusetts, and contains more than 100 academic, athletic, and residential buildings.[2] There are 360 voting faculty members, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 6:1. As of 2022, the school has an enrollment of 2,021 undergraduate students and 50 graduate students.[5]

Following a liberal arts curriculum, Williams College provides undergraduate instruction in 25 academic departments and interdisciplinary programs including 36 majors in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences. Williams offers an almost entirely undergraduate instruction, though there are two graduate programs in development economics and art history. The college maintains affiliations with the nearby Clark Art Institute and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and has a close relationship with Exeter College, Oxford. The college competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference as the Ephs.

Prominent alumni include 9 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 Nobel Prize laureates, a Fields medalist, a Lasker award recipient, 16 billionaires, 71 members of the United States Congress, 22 U.S. Governors, 4 U.S. Cabinet secretaries, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a President of the United States, 3 prime ministers, CEOs and founders of Fortune 500 companies, multiple Emmy, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy award winners, and professional athletes. Other notable alumni include 40 Rhodes Scholars[6][7] and 17 Marshall Scholarship recipients.[8][9]

  1. ^ a b As of June 30, 2022. Williams Financial Statement FY21-22 (PDF) (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on November 28, 2021. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
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  3. ^ "Williams Graphics Standards" (PDF). Williams College. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 19, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  4. ^ "Williams College - Sports Information". Archived from the original on March 20, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
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  6. ^ "Home | The Rhodes Scholarships" (PDF). www.rhodesscholar.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 17, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  7. ^ "Williams College Senior Linda Worden '19 Named Rhodes Scholar". Office of Communications. Archived from the original on December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  8. ^ "Statistics". www.marshallscholarship.org. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  9. ^ "Our Fellowship Winners | Williams College". www.williams.edu. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.

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