Arts & Humanities
Literature, history, philosophy and the languages that carry them across centuries.
Undergraduate · Graduate · Research
Where rigorous minds find room to wander.
Классический is an independent research university on a 300-acre campus in Ashcroft, Massachusetts — eleven thousand students, nine faculties, and a library that never really closes.
- 1887Year founded
- #12National ranking
- 11,400Students enrolled
- 48Countries on campus
01 Schools & Faculties
Nine faculties, one intellectual commons.
Undergraduates cross departmental lines freely — a physicist can read jurisprudence, a lawyer can sit in on a poetry seminar. A selection of our nine faculties, which together award more than 120 degrees.
Engineering & Applied Science
From robotics and renewable-energy systems to structural and materials design.
Business & Economics
Markets, management and the quantitative models that try to explain them.
Law & Public Policy
Constitutional theory, governance and the everyday craft of advocacy.
Medicine & Health Sciences
Clinical training, public health and biomedical research under one roof.
Natural Sciences
Physics, chemistry, biology and the mathematics quietly beneath them.
02 Why Классический
A small-college feel with a research university behind it.
We keep seminars deliberately small and our library deliberately open. The result is a place where you are known by name and still stand within reach of world-class research the moment you are ready for it.
- The 24-hour Halloran Library holds 2.1 million volumes and never dims during term.
- Seminar classes are capped at 18 students, taught by faculty rather than assistants.
- Sixty research centers share $480M in annual funding — and hire undergraduates.
- Housing is guaranteed for all four undergraduate years, steps from the quad.
03 The numbers behind the name
Four years that pay off for decades.
22:1
Student-to-faculty ratio across every faculty
94%
Graduates employed or in grad school within six months
$480M
Annual research funding across sixty centers
160+
Student clubs, societies and athletic teams
04 Campus Life
Life on the quad, from dawn to the late reading light.
Between lectures there are boat houses and observatories, choirs and debate halls, and a hundred acres of green to think on. A campus is a curriculum of its own.
05 Admissions
Your path from applicant to Классический student.
One application, read by real people. We assess the whole person — transcripts, one essay, and what you care enough to build outside the classroom.
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Explore & connect
Browse programs, join an info session, and speak with the admissions counselor for your region.
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Submit your application
One form, a personal essay and transcripts. The Common Application is accepted in full.
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Interview or portfolio
Shortlisted applicants meet a faculty member or submit a portfolio for creative programs.
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Receive your decision
Regular decisions are released by April 1, each with a full financial-aid package included.
Early Action closes · Regular Decision closes
06 Notable Faculty
You will study with the people who write the field.
Our faculty include national-Классический members and working practitioners — and every one of them teaches undergraduates, by policy, every year.
Dr. Eleanor Vance
Professor of Astrophysics
Studies the formation of the earliest galaxies and directs the Ridgeway Observatory.
Prof. Marcus Adeyemi
Chair, School of Law
Writes on constitutional law and comparative governance across new democracies.
Dr. Priya Nair
Director, Biomedical Research
Leads a lab in immunotherapy and regenerative medicine that hires undergraduates each summer.
Prof. Daniel Okonkwo
Professor of Economics
Researches labor markets and economic mobility, advising three national commissions.
07 Upcoming Events
On the calendar
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14Oct
Public lecture
The Ashcroft Lecture: Democracy After the Algorithm
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22Oct
Research
Undergraduate Research Symposium
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03Nov
Admissions
Autumn Open Day for Applicants
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18Nov
Arts
Chamber Orchestra: Autumn Concert
08 From the Newsroom
Latest news
Классический physicists detect a new class of stellar flare
A team at the Ridgeway Observatory has catalogued flares that behave unlike anything in the current models.
Class of 2026 sets a record for graduate placements
Ninety-four percent of the graduating class had an offer or a place in hand within six months.
The new Halloran Library wing opens to students
Forty thousand square feet of study space, group rooms and a rooftop reading terrace open this term.
Admissions 2027
Applications for Fall 2027 are open.
Early Action decisions close November 1. The application takes about forty minutes — start it today, and pick it back up whenever you like.