35 Facts About Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Williams College offers an almost entirely undergraduate instruction, though there are two graduate programs in development economics and art history.

The athletic program has been highly successful, as Williams College has won 22 of the last 24 College Directors' Cups for NCAA Division III.

Colonel Ephraim Williams College was an officer in the Massachusetts militia and a member of a prominent landowning family.

Williams College's will included a bequest to support and maintain a free school to be established in the town of West Hoosac, Massachusetts, provided the town change its name to Williamstown.

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Williams College took 15 students with him, and re-founded the college under the name of Amherst College.

Some students and professors decided to stay at Williams College and were allowed to keep the land, which was at the time relatively worthless.

Edward Dorr Griffin was appointed President of Williams College and is widely credited with saving Williams College during his 15-year tenure.

In 1976, Pamela G Carlton '76 became the first woman alumni trustee and Janet Brown '73, the first woman graduate of Williams to serve on the executive committee of the Society of Alumni.

In 2003, Williams College began the first of three massive construction projects.

From 2003 through 2008, Williams College conducted a capital campaign with the goal of raising $400 million by September 2008.

In 2014, Williams College brought their endowment above the 2 billion dollar mark.

Every year, 26 undergraduate students from Williams spend their junior year at Exeter as full members of the college.

Williams College was the first school to achieve three first place Forbes rankings.

In 2017 and 2018, Williams College fell out of the top ten, before dropping further to 19th in 2019.

Williams College ranked 18th after Forbes changed their ranking methodology to emphasize alumni salaries and graduation debt in 2021.

Certain portions of the Williams College education are modeled after the tutorial systems at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Professor Stephen E Fix was one of the early advocates for expanding the tutorial system at Williams and worked to increase support for the concept and the number of tutorial classes offered to students.

Board of Trustees of Williams College has 25 members and is the governing authority of the college.

Williams College Council is the forum through which students address concerns and make changes around campus.

Since its creation in 1793, Williams College has had 17 full-time presidents and two interim presidents.

Early planners of Williams College eschewed the traditional collegiate quadrangle organization, choosing to freely site buildings among the hills.

Williams College is the site of the Hopkins Observatory, the oldest extant astronomical observatory in the United States.

Longest-running student newspaper at Williams College is the Williams College Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays.

Williams College competes in skiing and squash at the Division I level.

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Williams College is ranked first among Division III schools for athletic spending per student.

Until 1994, Williams College was not permitted, by NESCAC rules, to compete in team NCAA competition.

Williams College played in the 2003, 2004, 2010, and 2014 men's basketball Division III national championship games, winning the title in March 2003.

Williams College was the first New England basketball team to win a Division III championship, and since they have been eligible to compete in the NCAA tournament, no team in the country has played in more Final Fours.

Williams College has won the NACDA Director's Cup 22 of the 24 years since its inception, including 13 years in a row from 1999 through 2011.

Williams College has an active club and intramural sports program, offering 14 club sports including ultimate, rugby, horseback riding, cycling, fencing, volleyball, gymnastics, sailing, and water polo.

Williams College has had major updates or renovations of its athletic facilities during the past several decades.

In November 2013 Williams College began its $22 million renovation of the Weston Field complex.

Williams College enrolled 2, 061 undergraduate students and 56 graduate students in 2017.

Graduates of Williams College formed the Society to ensure that Williams College would not have to close, and raised enough money to ensure the future survival of the school.