Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 through a bequest from Sophia Smith and opened in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. A member of the Seven Sisters and the Five College Consortium, it had about 2,915 students in fall 2025, including 2,578 undergraduates. The roughly 147-acre campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as an arboretum, and students live in about 41 houses. Smith has an open curriculum with about 50 departments and programs and was the first women's college in the US to grant its own undergraduate engineering degrees. It runs junior-year-abroad programs in Paris, Hamburg, Florence and Geneva. Undergraduate admission is restricted to women, including transgender women since 2015, while graduate programs are open to all genders. Teams compete in NCAA Division III.
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Northampton, MA 01063, United States, Massachusetts
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