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Harvey Mudd College

Harvey Mudd College
301 Platt Boulevard
Claremont, CA 91711-5994


Fax number: (909) 607-7046
Website: https://www.hmc.edu/
Screen last updated on: February 2024
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
Calendar system: semester system (two terms comprise academic year)
Month(s) in which new student orientation is held: Orientation for new students is held prior to start of fall term.
Number and length of summer sessions: A summer session is offered for credit.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Percent of full-time freshman students who returned for sophomore year: 97%
Student:Faculty ratio: 9:1
Total faculty: 62 men, 41 women
Full-time faculty: 57 men, 36 women
Part-time faculty: 5 men, 5 women
Graduation rate: 92% within six years

Harvey Mudd College
REQUIRED UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
General education/core curriculum is required: yes

PROGRAMS OFFERED
Special programs offered:
student-designed majors, double majors, independent study, internships, external degree program
Study abroad opportunities:
Study-abroad program offered.
Army ROTC: offered off-campus ROTC branch unit at a cooperating host institution.
Air Force ROTC: offered off-campus ROTC branch unit at a cooperating host institution.

LIST OF MAJORS
Bachelor's Degrees

  • Biochemistry
  • Biology/Biological Sciences, General
  • Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other
  • Chemistry, General
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering, General
  • Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Mathematics, General
  • Physics, General
  • Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

ADVANCED CREDIT/PLACEMENT
Credit placement options:
  • credit for CEEB Advanced Placement
  • neither credit nor placement for international baccalaureate

CERTIFICATES OFFERED
  • False
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Our curriculum could could be reasonably described in three parts: the Common Core; the major; Humanities and Social Sciences.  Chronologically, students first take courses in a common core program, providing a foundation in Mathematics (typically 2 years of math through Linear Algebra and Differential Equations and Statistics), a computer science course, a writing intensive humanities course (which double counts towards the humanities and social sciences requirement), three terms of Physics, a full year of General Chemistry, Biology, and a systems Engineering class.

Students musdt complete a minimum of 12 courses in Humanities and Social Sciences (H/SS), of which 5 must be taken  at HMC, the others may be taken at neighboring colleges in Claremont or through study abroad.  There is a distribution requirement in H/SS, as well as a concentration requirement whcih involves completing at least four courses in one particualr area of inquiry (a mini-minor).

Each major includes a healthy mixture of required and elective courses, covers both theoretical and applied areas of study, and each studnet must complete a capstone experience in the major by writing a thesis or completing one of our celebrated Clinic programs.

At least one course must be an integrated course that looks at how science affects society or vice versa.

 

 

 

 
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