Hamilton Continentals baseball
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| Latin: Collegii Hamiltonensis | |
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Former name
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Hamilton-Oneida Academy (1793-1812) |
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| Motto | Γνωθι Σεαυτόν (Greek) |
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Motto in English
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Know Thyself |
| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1793 |
| Endowment | $954.7 million (2017) |
| President | David Wippman |
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Academic staff
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191 |
| Undergraduates | 1,850 |
| Location |
Clinton, New York, U.S. 43°03′09″N 75°24′20″W / 43.052364°N 75.405657°WCoordinates: 43°03′09″N 75°24′20″W / 43.052364°N 75.405657°W |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colors | Continental blue and Buff |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – NESCAC, MAISA |
| Nickname | Continentals |
| Affiliations |
Oberlin Group Annapolis Group CLAC |
| Website | www |
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| University rankings | |
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| National | |
| Forbes | 50 |
| Liberal arts colleges | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 12 |
| Washington Monthly | 21 |
Hamilton College is a private, nonsectarian liberal arts college in Clinton, New York. Founded as an academy in 1793, it was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with its coordinate sister school Kirkland College.
Hamilton's student body is 51% female and 49% male, and comes from 49 U.S. states and 49 countries. Hamilton is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference.
Hamilton is an exclusively undergraduate institution, enrolling 1,850 students in the fall of 2017. Students may choose from 56 areas of study, including 43 concentrations (majors), or design an interdisciplinary concentration. Hamilton received 6,240 applicants for the class of 2022 and accepted 1,300, yielding a 20.8% acceptance rate.
Hamilton began in 1793 as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, a seminary founded by Rev. Samuel Kirkland, a Presbyterian minister, as part of his missionary work with the Oneida tribe. The seminary admitted both white and Oneida boys. Kirkland named it in honor of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy.
The Academy became Hamilton College in 1812, making it the third oldest college in New York after Columbia and Union, after it expanded to a four-year college curriculum. By the end of the nineteenth century, its colorful ninth President M. Woolsey Stryker distanced Hamilton from the Presbyterian Church (although he was a minister of that denomination and published many hymns), and sought to make it a more secular institution.
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