About Williams

Williams College is home to approximately 2,100 students who develop close intellectual and personal relationships, learning from and alongside some of the world’s leading scholars. We also offer two graduate programs: a two-year master’s degree in the history of art, in partnership with the Clark Art Institute, and a yearlong master’s program designed for public-sector economists from low- and middle-income countries.

Williams offers one of the most generous financial aid programs in the country. Admission decisions for U.S. students are made regardless of their ability to pay; once they are here, the college meets 100% of the demonstrated need of all students regardless of citizenship. More than half of our students receive aid, and the college recently implemented the country’s first all-grant financial aid program, replacing the work-study, packaged loans and summer earnings portion of financial aid with institutional grants.

Upon graduation, our students join an extraordinarily devoted body of alumni—the oldest society of alumni in the country—whose financial generosity makes every aspect of a Williams education possible. Alumni carry the lessons they learn as students into the world and throughout their lives, multiplying exponentially the impact of a small liberal arts college.