Program choice
Level 5
Open curriculum
University
Hamilton College
Program choice
Level 5
Open curriculum
Course choice
Level 3
Unrestricted elective
Hamilton describes an open curriculum with few requirements, 32 units, a concentration, writing-intensive, quantitative/symbolic reasoning and PE requirements.
Model elements: open curriculum and the four-year structure.
Academic Advising states that Hamilton has no distribution requirements and that the standard load is four courses per semester for eight semesters.
Model elements: hamilton's four-year model and free course choice without a distribution core.
The page describes declaring a concentration in the spring of sophomore year and the ability to change from one concentration to another.
Operational model element: choosing the main pathway in the open curriculum.
NCES College Navigator for IPEDS ID 191515 reports Fall 2024 total enrollment of 2,031 and notes that all students are undergraduate.
The same NCES record lists Bachelor's degree as the only award offered, so the undergraduate total is stored as bachelor.
The specialist level is not used in the United States model.