Description

No other college in the country does what we do.

We’re a small, selective, supportive, intensive college of the liberal arts and sciences in the middle of the Berkshires, one of the nation’s cultural and natural treasures. All of our 400 students come to us after 10th or 11th grade in high school. We give them a broad-minded, paradigm-shifting education; faculty trained in the country’s best universities; inspired and inspiring classes; first-class facilities for the sciences, the arts, and athletics; and an astonishing range of opportunities for conducting specialized research and gaining hands-on experience. We offer 43 concentrations, many of them interdisciplinary; our academic program leads to an AA or a BA.

Simon’s Rock was founded by Elizabeth Blodgett Hall in 1966. In 1979 we became part of Bard College (established in 1860), one of the country’s outstanding (and most innovative) liberal arts colleges, located 50 miles away, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

We offer an education with immediate practical value and lasting implications for our students’ minds and hearts and hands: their intellect, their imagination, the work they’ll do in the world.

We’re a college of the liberal arts and sciences. What does that mean? At Simon’s Rock, it means our students become conversant in the languages of science and math, the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts. It means they’re able to translate from one language to another, to find commonalities, connections. We also expect our students to write (and write, and write) in every class, tangible proof of their ability to think clearly and coherently and to develop a complex, persuasive argument. Finally—and crucially—we ask our students to take responsibility for the shape and scope of their education, working with advisors and professors to choose (or design) courses, independent projects, and off-campus opportunities.

Our education, in other words, isn’t just a series of isolated classes; it’s part of the fabric of our students’ daily lives. Wrestling with unfamiliar and complicated ideas, dreaming about improbable solutions, finding a new language to describe the human condition—this is the kind of thing we do at a seminar table, in the dining hall, in the meadow, and in a friend’s room in the darkest hours of the morning.

Quick Facts

Location

Northeast

Setting

Small Town Setting

Type

Private

Size

Small (Under 2,000 Undergrad)

On-Campus Housing Available

Yes

In-State Tuition

$40,165

Out-of-State Tuition

$40,165

Selectivity

Selective

Enrollment

431

Students

Full-Time Undergrad Students
436
Freshman Class
178
Total Students (Undergrads & Graduate Students)
431

Undergraduate vs. Graduate

Undergraduate
101%
Graduate
-1%

Full-Time vs. Part-time Students

Full-Time
100%
Part-Time
0%

Students Coming From In-State vs. Out-of-State

In-State
10%
Out-of-State
90%

Gender of Students

Women
57%
Men
43%

Ethnic Diversity

African-American
6%
Asian
5%
Caucasian
69%
Latino
4%
Other
16%

Students State Origin

New York
17%
Massachusetts
10%
California
8%
New Jersey
7%
Pennsylvania
6%
Other
52%

International Students

International
4%
Domestic
96%