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Hamilton will prepare you for a life of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.
Page sections
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.
About Hamilton
Know Thyself
Meet Our Faculty
Campus Facilities
Research & Learning Experiences
Study Off Campus
ALEX: Advise, Learn, EXperience
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
Financial Aid Facts
Careers & Outcomes
Notable Alumni
Recent Guests & Speakers
Student Achievements
Leadership Opportunities
Activities & Clubs
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
Meet Ilsaa Siddiqui
Meet Tim Colledge
Meet Abigail Lowder
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
Meet Ilsaa Siddiqui
Meet Tim Colledge
Meet Abigail Lowder
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.
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
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.
Alejandro Sosa Hernández ’26 co-produced a remix of “My Shot” that became the show-stopping opening for Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Kyandreia Jones ’19, who authored a book published by Chooseco while she was a senior, says Hamilton was the perfect place to expand and strengthen her writing.
Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph ’81 talks about how the writing and public speaking skills he learned at Hamilton serve him well every day.
Help us provide an accessible education, offer innovative resources and programs, and foster intellectual exploration.
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Listen
Hamilton -
Know
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Hamilton will prepare you for a life of meaning, purpose, and active citizenship.
Page sections
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.
Page sections
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.
About Hamilton
Know Thyself
Meet Our Faculty
Campus Facilities
Research & Learning Experiences
Study Off Campus
ALEX: Advise, Learn, EXperience
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
Financial Aid Facts
Careers & Outcomes
Notable Alumni
Recent Guests & Speakers
Student Achievements
Leadership Opportunities
Activities & Clubs
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
Meet Ilsaa Siddiqui
Meet Tim Colledge
Meet Abigail Lowder
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
Meet Ilsaa Siddiqui
Meet Tim Colledge
Meet Abigail Lowder
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.
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
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.
Alejandro Sosa Hernández ’26 co-produced a remix of “My Shot” that became the show-stopping opening for Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Kyandreia Jones ’19, who authored a book published by Chooseco while she was a senior, says Hamilton was the perfect place to expand and strengthen her writing.
Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph ’81 talks about how the writing and public speaking skills he learned at Hamilton serve him well every day.
Help us provide an accessible education, offer innovative resources and programs, and foster intellectual exploration.
Make a Gift
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