If you’re on the verge of 11th or 12th grade and certain you don’t want more of the same, Simon’s Rock can show you what education is like when everyone shares your love of learning. We’re the only residential college experience designed for thoughtful, exceptionally motivated students who are ready to start college early.
If you’re on the verge of 11th or 12th grade and certain you don’t want more of the same, Simon’s Rock can show you what education is like when everyone shares your love of learning. We’re the only residential college experience designed for thoughtful, exceptionally motivated students who are ready to start college early.
Number of states and countries our students come from (respectively).
Our wooded campus is in the heart of the Berkshires, an area known for its natural beauty and rich cultural life.
Average age of Simon‘s Rock students when they enter.
Percentage of students receiving financial aid.
There‘s only one way to become a Rocker, and that‘s to apply
Percentage of full-time faculty holding highest degree in their field.
Number of majors.
Number of Fulbright Fellows since 2010.
Minimum weekly meetings with your advisor.
Our ranking among all U.S. colleges for percentage of alumni who complete their PhD.
Number of full-time students. Ninety percent live on campus.
Availability of our professional residence directors who live in each residence hall.
“One of America’s smartest colleges”
Percentage of Rockers who are students of color.
Academic Rating from the Princeton Review—higher than Harvard and Princeton.
Our student faculty ratio.
Number 1 Small town in America, as ranked by Smithsonian Magazine.
Ratio of male to female students.
Average class size.
Percentage of recent Simon’s Rock graduates who have gone on to graduate study.
As ranked by the National Survey of Student Engagement for academic challenge and educational experience.
Our distance from Boston (west) or New York (north).
Alumni listed on Forbes “30 Under 30” list of most creative minds.
Theory is great. We love theory! But we’re also crazy about application and putting that theory to work in the world. Create wearable tech, try sustainable farming (chickens included!), become a connoisseur of the exquisitely balanced equation, solve a problem no one has before. Our faculty and the Fisher Center can send you in a multitude of fascinating directions.
SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, & COMPUTINGThere are no artsy “types” at Simon’s Rock—everyone is a cauldron of creativity, and it’s just a question of whether you’re simmering or at a full boil. In either case, this is your chance to study and work in amazing facilities with real practitioners across the spectrum of the arts. This is where inspiration meets aesthetic clarity—and the result is something all your own.
PERFORMING & VISUAL ARTSIf you can express it or create it with a language, you can study it and own it here. Literature, film and other media, creative writing, cultural studies, linguistics, brilliant conversation—you can pursue it in your native and/or acquired tongue. We offer instruction in five languages and immersive study abroad opportunities, so you can embrace fluency in all its manifestations.
LANGUAGES & LITERATUREYou’re invited to explore, dig in, and even dabble in and across all our intellectual offerings. Construct your own roller coaster of knowledge and ideas. We’ll be waving our hands in the air right alongside you.
EVERYTHINGThe Men's Soccer Team will play a rematch against Hoosac School, so put on your Simon's Rock swag and make your way down...
Brooke Skinner Ricketts ’97 returns to campus to talk how she turned a BA in Politics and Art History from Simon’s Rock...
On Friday, September 30, Bard College at Simon’s Rock will hold its 5th annual Rock the Community. The event celebrates...
An exhibition of 5 large-scale oil on canvas paintings are on display at the Hillman Jackson Gallery in the Daniel Arts Center. The...
Speaker: Kiese Laymon, University of Mississippi. The Division of Social Studies presents the Fall 2016 Proseminar in Humanistic...
Mark Wunderlich, author of three books of poems, The Anchorage, Voluntary Servitude, and The Earth Avails, will read his...
The 7th public lecture in our Fall 2016 Proseminar Speaker Series, "Who the People: Punctuating Politics in the USA, Being...
Put on your Simon's Rock swag and make your way down to the Llama Pasture (soccer field) to support our Kicking Llamas as...
You see more when you stand at the crossroads.
We’re not big on silos of knowledge. We think the most enduring and provocative insights about individuals and cultures emerge where disciplines intersect. Join us at this vantage point and delve into the people, institutions, values, and challenges that never fail to excite, inspire, and madden us. Discover where you stand in the flow of history and ideas.
SOCIAL & POLITICAL STUDIES