Studying as an exchange student at another college offers Mills students another avenue for experiencing different teaching styles and learning environments. Mills has exchange or visiting programs with 15 American colleges and universities, and affiliations with study abroad programs in 11 foreign countries. For students with unique visions of what they want to study, the College Major provides a valuable option. Students who choose to create their own major work with three faculty advisors to plan an individual program of study that draws courses from across the curriculum and knits them into a coherent whole. Some recent College Majors include Natural Language Communication with Computers, Dance in Relation to Anthropology, Human Biological and Social Science, and Urban Political Decision Making and Communications.
Mills offers preprofessional programs in medicine and health sciences, law, education, and business.
The faculty is composed of women and men in roughly equal numbers, and the ratio of students to faculty is approximately 11 to 1. The College has remained comparatively small because ideas and enthusiasm are more readily transmitted in a community of this size. Faculty observe each student's work closely, encouraging high performance and offering individual instruction when appropriate. Because we encourage mutually enriching interactions among programs and students, both undergraduate and graduate, - graduate students may enroll in some advanced undergraduate classes. Although the College is a diverse community serving many interests, it is built to a human scale.