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Williams College Museum of Art

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Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Phone:
+1 413-597-2429

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
WednesdayClosed
Thursday10am - 8pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established 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. The college was ranked first in 2017 in the U.S. News & World Report's liberal arts ranking for the 15th consecutive year, and first among liberal arts colleges in the 2018 Forbes magazine ranking of America's Top Colleges.Williams is on a 450-acre campus in Williamstown, in the Berkshires in rural northwestern Massachusetts. The campus contains more than 100 academic, athletic, and residential buildings. There are 349 voting faculty members, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 7:1. As of 2017, the school has an enrollment of 2,042 undergraduate students and 57 graduate students. The college competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference, and competes in the conference as the Ephs. 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, as there are two graduate programs in development economics and art history. The College maintains affiliations with the nearby Clark Art Institute and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and has a close relationship with Exeter College, Oxford University. Undergraduate admissions is highly selective, with an acceptance rate of 12.1% for the Class of 2022.The college has produced many prominent alumni, including 8 Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel Prize Laureate, a Fields medalist, 3 chairmen of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 10 billionaire alumni, 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, high-ranking U.S. diplomats, foreign central bankers, scholars in academia, literary and media figures, numerous Emmy, Oscar, and Grammy award winners, and professional athletes. Other notable alumni include 35 Rhodes Scholars, 17 Marshall Scholarship winners, and numerous Watson Fellows and Fulbright scholarship recipients.
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