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Williams College is a highly selective private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. According to current U.S. News and World Report rankings, Williams is the #1 liberal arts college in the United States. As of 2008, the school has an enrollment of 1,997 undergraduate students and 49 graduate students. Williams was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams as a men's college, located in the Berkshires in northwestern Massachusetts, at the foot of Mount Greylock. In 1834, the first non-secret fraternity in the United States, Delta Upsilon, was founded on its campus. Fraternities were phased out beginning in 1962. The college became coeducational in 1970. Williams forms part of the historic Little Three colleges, along with Wesleyan University and Amherst College. There are three academic curricular divisions (humanities, sciences, and social sciences), 24 departments, 33 majors, and two small master's degree programs in art history and... full article at wikipedia
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