Campus and the Colleges

Institute participants will have the opportunity to experience life on a college campus. You will be required to follow established guidelines for student life, which will be enclosed with the letter of acceptance to the Institute.

Students will live in college housing with trained residential staff. Girls and boys will live on separate floors, but share common lounges and laundry facilities.

All meals will be provided. On campus, meals will be served in the Colleges' dining facilities. Box lunches and other arrangements will be made for field trips. You should be prepared to assist in meal preparation on the Adirondack camping trip and some day trips.

The campus has exceptional recreational facilities, including an enclosed field house, pool, and tennis, racquetball, and basketball courts.

The Colleges
Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private, coordinate, liberal arts institutions that share a 180-acre campus in Geneva, New York. Hobart College, founded in 1822, enrolls approximately 950 men; William Smith College, founded in 1908, enrolls about 840 women. (For more information, see HWS Quickfacts)

Classes are coeducational, and the faculty and campus facilities serve both Colleges. Their unique coordinate system enables each school to retain its own identity, and creates an environment in which men and women learn to respect each other as equals and to gain insight into the thoughts, ambitions, and societal pressures that shape their distinctive experiences as men and women.

The curriculum is interdisciplinary, combining in-depth work in a major with the breadth acquired by distribution requirements and a general-education program. Majors are offered in 23 departments and 11 interdisciplinary programs, and in individualized courses of study. Throughout the curriculum, students are encouraged to understand the relationships between academic disciplines.

Geneva is located at the northern tip of Seneca Lake in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of Central New York. The city of 15,000 is within an hour's drive of Syracuse, Rochester, and Ithaca. To find out how to get here, see directions to campus.