Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest women's college in the United States. It is a private,
non-denominational liberal arts college and one of the Seven Sisters.
Smith is also a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other Pioneer Valley institutions: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Notable Facts:
Kurt Vonnegut and Sylva Plath were part of the faculty at Smith College.
Smith College is the first and only women's college in the United States to
grant its own undergraduate degrees in engineering.
Smith has an endowment of over one billion dollars.
Notable alumnae:
Harriet Boyd-Hawes
Otelia Cromwell
Margaret Mitchell
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Julia McWilliams Child
Madeleine L'Engle
Betty Friedan
Nancy Reagan
Barbara Bush
Sylvia Plath
Gloria Steinem
Mary McPherson
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Tammy Baldwin