Hampshire College Students
We're in This Together
As a teach-out partner for Hampshire College, we are available to you while you navigate the upcoming academic year. We commend Hampshire College for seeking various pathways that best meet student needs, and are here to support you as you explore Prescott College as one of your options.
Prescott College has a clear transfer policy for Hampshire students and we provide an affordable option with tuition at $15,000 per year. This rate was designed to offer a private college education at a more affordable, transparent price and align our values of inclusivity, justice, and sustainability with the cost of our education. Some courses have additional course fees when accommodations, gear, supplies, and travel are extensive.
Immersive, Experiential Learning
Prescott College is a one-of-a-kind liberal arts college dedicated to immersive experiential learning while focused on cultivating capable, action-oriented community members within a small, tight-knit community. Our curriculum is interdisciplinary with Competencies (majors) that encourage students to work across disciplines using transdisciplinary action to solve global and local challenges. Our students learn in field-based settings (schools, non-profits, remote wilderness) to situate their learning in appropriate contexts, leaving them with real, hands-on, resume-worthy experience
Hampshire students’ self-directed work is highly valued and will continue at Prescott College. Our own students are required to engage in internships, service learning, and each completes a capstone Senior Project. Experiential learning is our pedagogy from day one to graduation. Hampshire students may find transferring to Prescott to complete a BAS in Interdisciplinary Studies as the most streamlined and congruent degree path from their Liberal Studies coursework and experiences.
Transfer Your Credits to One of Our Programs
While all students must earn 120 credits for a Bachelor’s degree at Prescott College, each of our majors constitutes only about 1/3rd of that total 120 credit requirement. This allows students to design a unique path with double majors, additional concentrations, certificate programs, or simply to combine transferred Hampshire courses and experiences with PC courses that speak to their learning goals. Our competences (majors) are;
Adventure Education - 44 credits
Critical Social Justice and Solidarity - 40 credits
Environmental Humanities - 40 credits
Field Ecology and Conservation - 48 credits
Psychology - 40 credits
Interdisciplinary Studies - 40 credits
Accelerate Into a Master's Program
The accelerated master’s program allows students to begin taking Master’s level coursework to fulfill Bachelor’s degree requirements. Students are able to shorten their timeline to completing a Master’s degree, and only pay the undergraduate degree tuition for courses that meet two degrees!
Transfer Policy
Students who have embarked on Div I, Div II, or Div III are welcome to Prescott College to complete their undergraduate degrees. Students who have completed Div II are invited to complete their undergraduate degrees while accelerating into a master's program.
Hampshire College students will complete an accelerated application online and provide transcripts of your coursework and transfer course accepted by Hampshire Official document received directly from Hampshire College will be acceptable.
Current Hampshire College International students must also provide affidavit of financial support, copy of passport and visa, I-94, and SEVIS Transfer Eligibility Verification form to be able to transfer under this agreement.
Full details of the transfer policy will be discussed with your counselor.
Location and Community
Prescott College is located in central Arizona at a mile high elevation, just 90 miles from both Phoenix and Flagstaff. It is a destination location but also is very livable with supermarkets and select big box stores.
The campus resides downtown and boasts both historic and LEED-certified buildings, including townhouses for student living, a learning commons (library), cafe, gardens, and centers for social action and sustainability initiatives. Our hearty fleet of vans allows students to learn outside the traditional classroom (though we do have IT-equipped classrooms) in the human and natural communities in Prescott and beyond. All first-year students live on campus. Returning students often choose to live in the “Village” as well, though others rent shared housing locally.
Prescott offers over 400 miles of hiking and mountain biking trails, and myriad opportunities for kayaking, rock climbing, and other outdoor pursuits. The closest major skiing to Prescott, AZ, is Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff, located approximately 2 hours from campus. We enjoy all Four Seasons with an average of 277 days of sunshine.
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