Editing Mount Holyoke College (section)

== Academics ==
[[File:Pioneer Valley South From Mt. Sugarloaf.jpg|thumb|230px|The [[Pioneer Valley]] and [[Connecticut River]]]]

=== Undergraduate programs ===
Mount Holyoke offers 50 departmental and interdepartmental majors, including the option to design a special major. The most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Mount+Holyoke&s=all&id=166939#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Mount Holyoke College |access-date=February 14, 2023}}</ref>
::Experimental Psychology (45)
::Biology/Biological Sciences (44)
::Econometrics & Quantitative Econometrics (34)
::English Language & Literature (33) 
::Computer Science (26)
::Neuroscience (21)
::International Relations & Affairs (20)

The primary degree conferred is the [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA) degree, for which students complete 128-semester credits (one standard course equals 4 credits). At least 68 credits must be earned from coursework outside the major department, across the three curricular divisions: humanities, science and mathematics, and social sciences. Study of a foreign language and completion of a multicultural perspectives course is also required.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/degrees.shtml |title=Degrees and Requirements &#124; Mount Holyoke College |publisher=Mtholyoke.edu |date= 2012-04-18|access-date=2012-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811071206/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/degrees.shtml |archive-date=2010-08-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Mount Holyoke's membership in the Five College Consortium allows students to enroll in courses at nearby Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They may also complete one of 12 Five College Certificates—among them African studies, Buddhist studies, coastal and marine sciences, cognitive neuroscience, international relations, and Middle Eastern studies—in lieu of a minor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fivecolleges.edu/|title=Five College Consortium|date=2012-06-22|publisher=www.fivecolleges.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716230828/https://www.fivecolleges.edu/|archive-date=2012-07-16|url-status=live|access-date=2012-07-14}}</ref>

=== Graduate programs ===
In addition to the BA, Mount Holyoke offers three master's degrees: a coed [[Master of Arts in Teaching]],<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/graduateprograms/teaching Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) | Mount Holyoke College] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222233126/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/graduateprograms/teaching/# |date=2013-02-22 }}. Mtholyoke.edu. Retrieved on 2013-09-07.</ref> a Master of Arts in mathematics teaching,<ref>[http://mathleadership.org/programs/master-of-arts-in-mathematics-teaching Master of Arts in Mathematics Teaching] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021053129/http://mathleadership.org/programs/master-of-arts-in-mathematics-teaching/# |date=2013-10-21 }}. Mathleadership.org (2012-05-14). Retrieved on 2013-09-07.</ref> and a [[Master of Psychology|master's in psychology]].<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/psychology/masterofarts Master of Arts in Psychology | Mount Holyoke College] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223005012/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/psychology/masterofarts |date=2013-02-23 }}. Mtholyoke.edu. Retrieved on 2013-09-07.</ref> Other programs include dual-degree programs in engineering with the [[California Institute of Technology]], the [[Thayer School of Engineering]] at [[Dartmouth College]], and the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/engineering/ |title=Dual-Degree Engineering Options |publisher=Mount Holyoke College |date= 2012-04-18|access-date=2012-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013074418/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/engineering/ |archive-date=2012-10-13 |url-status=live }}</ref> the Frances Perkins Program,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/fp/index.shtml |title=Frances Perkins Program |publisher=Mount Holyoke College |access-date=2012-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115165545/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/fp/index.shtml |archive-date=2010-01-15 |url-status=live }}</ref> for women over the age of 24 who wish to complete the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree; and the [[Postbaccalaureate program|Postbaccalaureate]] Studies Program,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/prehealth/postbac.html |title=Postbaccalaureate Pre-Medical Program |publisher=Mount Holyoke College |access-date=2012-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129212248/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/prehealth/postbac.html |archive-date=2012-01-29 }}</ref> for students who have already earned an undergraduate degree and wish to complete additional course work in preparation for graduate work in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, dentistry, or physical therapy science.