page_title: Hamilton College
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Hamilton College / Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of namesake and trustee Alexander Hamilton at Hamilton College, New York. Sculptor: George Thomas Brewster (1862-1943). Dedicated June 17, 1918. Foundry: Gorham Manufacturing Company. Source: https://www.si.edu/object/siris_ari_340654
context_page_description: Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with its coordinate sister school Kirkland College.
  Hamilton is an exclusively undergraduate institution, enrolling 1,850 students in the fall of 2019. Students may choose from 57 areas of study, including 43 majors, or design an interdisciplinary concentration. Hamilton's student body is 53% female and 47% male, and comes from 45 U.S. states and 46 countries. Hamilton is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference.
context_section_description: Among the more recent developments are the state-of-the-art Science Center, the largest construction project in the college's history (2005); the Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center (2006); major expansion and renovation of the Kirner-Johnson Building (2009); the Sadove Student Center at Emerson Hall (2010); the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art (2012); and the Kevin and Karen Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts (2014). Hamilton's athletic facilities include an ice rink, swimming pool, several athletics fields, a golf course, a three-story climbing wall, and a ten-court Squash Center. The college was listed as a census-designated place in 2020.
caption: This statue of namesake and trustee Alexander Hamilton is a centerpiece of the Hamilton College campus
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