Tuition and Financial Aid
MHC Traditions
Academics
Student Life
Departments, Offices,
and Resources
and Resources
100
A type of on-campus employment you may be eligible for depending on financial need
What is work study?
100
What is Convocation?
100
A person dedicated to helping you select courses, plan your academic journey, and talk about your goals, hobbies, and ideas for your future
What is a faculty advisor?
100
Student peer living on your floor who you can go to for support with transitioning to dorm life, issues with roommates, and more
What is a Residential Advisor?
There is a Resident Advisor (RA) responsible for every floor and a Residential Fellow (RF) in every hall
100
An opportunity to live and take classes internationally for a semester or full academic year
What is Study Abroad?
200
What is FAFSA?
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
200
What is Mountain Day?
200
A time for you to get additional course support, chat, and connect with professors outside of the classroom
What are office hours?
200
Community spaces designed to allow you to connect with your identity and experience new perspectives
What are quiet hours?
200
Free bus system to take you between the 5 Colleges and the rest of the region
What is the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA)?
300
What is room and board?
300
Special, themed dinners in the Blanchard Dining Commons that happen a couple times throughout the year
What are Gracious Dinners?
300
Courses, credits, and other requirements that must be completed to receive your diploma
What are graduation requirements?
Major, distribution requirements, multicultural perspectives, language, first year seminar, physical education
300
The place to go if you need accommodations in the classrooms or residence halls
What is the Office of Disability Services?
300
Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, Amherst College, and UMass Amherst are part of this group
What is the 5 College Consortium?
400
A guaranteed $3000-3600 stipend to fund a summer internship or research opportunity
What is Lynk funding?
400
An annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion learning symposium featuring a series of sessions and events
What is Community Day (BOOM)?
400
A place to go in the library to receive tutoring from peer mentors
What is tutoring and the SAW Center?
400
An opportunity for incoming first-years to be paired with a junior mentor to help with the transition into college
What is the Big/Little Program?
400
Campus guideline for all members of our community to address individuals using their chosen name and pronouns
What is the MHC pronoun policy?
500
Resource to help first generation and/or low income students by providing funds for essential living expenses, technology expenses, and emergency needs
What is the student safety net fund?
500
A celebration of the first known student of color to graduate from Mount Holyoke College and the first known black identified student to attend MHC
What is Hortense Parker Day?
500
The quietest section of the library
What are the stacks?
Different sections and floors of the library (atrium, reading room, group study rooms, private study rooms, North and South stacks, etc.) are marked with different noise/conversation levels to help students find the perfect place to study
500
What is Embark?
500
Identity and interest based residential floors to help you build community and make friends
What are Living Learning Communities (LLCs)?