Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College

If you plan to study mathematics, take a look at what Mount Holyoke College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Mt. Holyoke is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts and approximately 2,040 students attend the school each year. Of the 628 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 2021, 27 of them were mathematics majors.

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

Mt. Holyoke Mathematics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Math

Mt. Holyoke Mathematics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the math progam at Mt. Holyoke compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The math major at Mt. Holyoke is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Mathematics. 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 Mathematics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	40

Math Student Demographics at Mt. Holyoke

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the math majors at Mount Holyoke College.

Mt. Holyoke Mathematics Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 27 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in math from Mt. Holyoke. About 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical math bachelor's degree program is made up of only 39% women. So female students are more repesented at Mt. Holyoke since its program graduates 61% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	7
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Related Majors

• Statistics

Careers That Math Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
High School Teachers	26,420	$80,020
Natural Sciences Managers	4,040	$183,490
Statisticians	3,090	$108,670
Mathematical Science Professors	1,700	$92,200

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.