Literature at Hamilton College

What traits are you looking for in a literature school? To help you decide if Hamilton College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's literature program.

Hamilton is located in Clinton, New York and approximately 1,902 students attend the school each year. Of the 597 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College in 2021, 18 of them were literature majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Literature section at the bottom of this page.

Hamilton Literature Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Literature

Hamilton Literature Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks literature programs across the country. The following shows how Hamilton performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The literature major at Hamilton is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Literature. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Literature Schools	5
Best Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	8
Most Popular Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Best Value Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	17
Best Value Literature Schools	27
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Literature Student Demographics at Hamilton

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the literature majors at Hamilton College.

Hamilton Literature Bachelor’s Program

Of the 18 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in literature from Hamilton in 2021, 22% were men and 78% were women.

About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in literature at Hamilton are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hamilton College with a bachelor's in literature.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	13
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Hamilton also has a doctoral program available in literature. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Writing Studies

Careers That Literature Grads May Go Into

A degree in literature can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Hamilton College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Editors	19,140	$83,070
English Language and Literature Professors	7,700	$92,170
Writers and Authors	7,410	$86,380

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lvklock under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.