Smith at a Glance

Enrollment

More than 2,100 undergraduates in Northampton 

Geography

New England - 23%
Mid Atlantic - 24%
West - 20%
Foreign & US Territory - 11%
Midwest - 10%
South - 8%
Southwest - 4%

Tuition and Fees, 2023–24

• Tuition: $61,260
• Room and Board: $21,310
• Student Activities Fee: $308

Financial Aid to the Class of 2025

• Recipients of need-based gift aid from Smith: 63%
• Smith grant range: $1,120-$81,000
• Average need-based grant: $55,000
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  At Smith we are committed to making a high-quality education possible for women from all economic backgrounds by meeting 100% of the documented need of all admitted students who meet our deadlines. In the fall of 2022, Smith College will eliminate loans from its undergraduate financial aid packages for students receiving need-based institutional grants and replace the loan amount with grants from the college.

President

Sarah Willie-LeBreton is Smith’s president.

Faculty

295 professors in more than 50 academic departments and programs; student-faculty ratio of 9:1 in most years

99% of full-time faculty have doctoral or terminal degrees 

Courses of Study

About 1,000 courses in more than 50 areas of study.

International Study

Each year 40% of Smith juniors study abroad in Smith programs in Florence, Geneva, Hamburg and Paris, or in programs in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and English-speaking countries in both hemispheres.

Library Holdings

More than 1 million items. Special-subject libraries for the fine and performing arts and the sciences; distinguished collection of women’s history manuscripts; nationally prominent rare book collection.

Residential Life

41 self-governing house communities accommodate between 10 and 100 students; most houses include women from all four classes.

Athletics

11 varsity sports and extensive intramural and club sport programs.

Success After Smith

Six months after graduation, 97 percent of alums are employed or enrolled in full-time graduate studies.

Five College Consortium

Student and faculty exchanges, joint faculty appointments, joint course offerings, doctoral programs, combined library catalogues and borrowing privileges between Smith and nearby Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Hampshire colleges and the University of Massachusetts.

Alumnae

More than 45,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate degree recipients in all 50 states and more than 120 countries.

Support for Smith

Fundraising campaigns, including Women for the World and Here for Every Voice, have raised a total of $605 million in recent years. It was the largest and most successful campaign ever undertaken by a women’s college. In 2020, the college received the largest gift in its history – $50 million – in support of financial aid and career development.  

Graduation Rates

Smith’s six-year undergraduate graduation rate is 90 percent.