Mount Holyoke College : Ask Biography

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University information

Name

Mount Holyoke College

Motto

That our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace - Psalms 144:12

Established

Seminary, 1837 (Seminary charter, 1836)
Seminary and College, (Collegiate charter) 1888
College, 1893

Type

liberal arts women's college

Endowment

$488.0 million

President

Lynn Pasquerella

Faculty

200

Students

2200

City

South Hadley

State

Country

USA

Campus

2,000 acres (8.1 km2), academic campus:

Athletic nickname

MoHo, Holyoke, or MHC

Mascot

Lyon

Website

mtholyoke.edu

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Mount Holyoke College is a prestigious liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others. Mount Holyoke is part of the Pioneer Valley's Five College Consortium, along with Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The school was originally founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. It received its collegiate charter in 1888 as Mount Holyoke Seminary and College and became Mount Holyoke College in 1893. Mount Holyoke's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established in 1905.

Mount Holyoke's buildings were designed between 1896 and 1960. It has a Donald Ross-designed 18-hole golf course, The Orchards, which served as host to the U.S. Women's Open in 2004.

In 2009, Forbes rated it 47th in America's Best Colleges. U.S. News and World Report lists Mount Holyoke as the 26th best liberal arts college in the United States in its 2011 rankings. Mount Holyoke was also ranked #1 in the nation for Best Classroom Experience in the Princeton Review 2010 � 2011 rankings.