Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a private residential liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and renamed Mount Holyoke College in 1893. It describes itself as a highly selective, nondenominational, gender-diverse liberal arts college for women, and enrols about 2,178 undergraduates and 97 graduate students drawn from 45 states and 82 countries, with roughly 20% international students. Undergraduates may also take courses at the four partner institutions of the Five College Consortium.