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Hamilton College
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Latin: Collegii Hamiltonensis
Former name
Hamilton-Oneida Academy (1793-1812)
Motto Γνωθι Σεαυτόν (Greek)
Motto in English
Know Thyself
Type Private liberal arts college
Established 1793
Endowment $817.2 million (2016)
President David Wippman
Academic staff
191
Undergraduates 1,850
Location Clinton, New York, U.S.
43°03′09″N 75°24′20″W / 43.052364°N 75.405657°W / 43.052364; -75.405657Coordinates: 43°03′09″N 75°24′20″W / 43.052364°N 75.405657°W / 43.052364; -75.405657
Campus Rural
Colors Continental blue and Buff
         
Athletics NCAA Division IIINESCAC, MAISA
Nickname Continentals
Affiliations Oberlin Group
Annapolis Group
CLAC
Website www.hamilton.edu
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University rankings
National
Forbes 50
Liberal arts colleges
U.S. News & World Report 12
Washington Monthly 29

Hamilton College is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college located in the village of Clinton, New York, in the Mohawk Valley region of the Eastern United States (in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains). Founded as a boys' school in 1793, it was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812. It has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with its sister school Kirkland College. Hamilton's student body is 52% female and 48% male, and comes from 49 U.S. states and 45 countries.

Hamilton College is ranked 12th among "National Liberal Arts Colleges" in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.

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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