Hobart and William Smith Colleges Academic Experience

Past Performance

• 85% of our freshmen returned for sophomore year.
• 82% of our most recent graduates graduated in four years.
• How long does it usually take to graduate from freshman year?
  • On average, 78% of our freshman graduate in four years.
  • On average, 2% of our freshman graduate in five years.

What Do We Like To Study?

Most Popular Majors

• English
• psychology
• self-designed majors

Policies

Probation Policy

The minimum GPA required for all students to remain off probation during their entire college tenure is:

• Freshmen: 2.00
• Sophomore: 2.00
• Junior: 2.00
• Senior: 2.00

Academic Calendar

Academic Calendar System:

• Trimester System (three terms comprise academic year)

New student orientation:

• Orientation for new students is held in September.

• 24% continue immediately.
• 41% continue within 5 years.

• Law School: 7%
• Medical School: 4%
• Dental School: 1%
• Graduate Business Programs: 6%
• Graduate Arts and Sciences Programs: 30%

• Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Georgetown
• U, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Maxwell School of Public Administration,
• Middlebury College, Princeton University, University of Rochester, Stanford University, Yale U.

• Aetna, Bantam Doubleday, Chubb, Citibank, Federal Reserve Bank, IBM, J.P. Morgan, Merck, Morgan Stanley, Peace Corps, Sharpe & Dahme, Strawbridge & Clothier, Xerox.

• Eric Lax, author; Dr. Robert Gale, cancer researcher; Beth Brophy, senior editor, U.S. News & World Report; Reynold Levy, president, AT&T; Dr. Priscilla Shaffer, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Susan Bondy, financial analyst; Dorothy Wickenden, managing edity, The New Yorker; Ben Wattenberg, columnist/author/television host.