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Amherst College
Amherst College, founded in 1821, has long been considered Williams College's closest rival for the title of best liberal arts college in the country, and the two schools' athletic rivalry, dating to an 1859 baseball game believed to be the first intercollegiate game ever played, is the oldest continuous college sports rivalry in the United States. The college's open curriculum, which imposes no distribution requirements beyond a single required first-year seminar, gives Amherst students more freedom to design their own academic path than almost any other selective liberal arts college, a distinctive approach the school has maintained for decades. Amherst was among the earliest highly selective liberal arts colleges to adopt need-blind admission for both domestic and international applicants, and its socioeconomic diversity relative to peer institutions is frequently cited by higher-education researchers as a model other elite colleges have since tried to replicate. The college's small size, fewer than 2,000 students, and its central Massachusetts location within the Five College Consortium — alongside Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and UMass Amherst — give students access to a much broader range of courses and social life than the college's own enrollment alone would suggest.
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Wellesley College
Wellesley College, founded in 1870, is one of the Seven Sisters women's colleges and has remained women's-only even as several of its sister institutions went coeducational, a deliberate choice the college has maintained on the premise that a single-sex environment produces disproportionate numbers of women in leadership roles. The college's alumnae include Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and a long list of other prominent political and business leaders, and Wellesley is frequently cited as having produced more women in significant leadership positions, relative to its size, than almost any other American institution. Wellesley's campus, built around Lake Waban, is considered one of the most beautiful in the country, and the school's small size and academic rigor let it maintain close faculty mentorship relationships that the college credits as central to its graduates' career outcomes. As part of the Boston-area academic consortium and with a formal cross-registration exchange with MIT, Wellesley students can take classes and access resources well beyond the college's own campus, combining the intimacy of a small women's college with access to one of the country's top research universities.
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