Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, New York. It was originally established as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and later received its charter as Hamilton College in 1812, in honor of Alexander Hamilton, one of its inaugural trustees, following a proposal made after his death in 1804. Since 1978, Hamilton has been a coeducational institution, having merged with its sister school, Kirkland College.
Hamilton College as painted from a hot-air balloon by watercolor artist Richard Rummell in the early 1900s
Daniel Burke Library
"KJ" was built in 1972 for Kirkland College.
Historic Hamilton College Chapel
Liberal arts colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States that focus on a liberal arts education. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise defines liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum". Generally, a full-time, four-year course of study at a liberal arts college leads students to earning the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science.
Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
Bates College, the first coeducational liberal arts college in New England, and one of the first to dismiss the ACT/SAT requirement
Sarah Lawrence College dismissed their standardized test scores requirements in the early 2000s.
