Q: What type of educational institution is Smith College?

A: Smith College is a private women's liberal arts college. It is also classified as a university and a private not-for-profit educational institution, focusing on arts and sciences.

Q: Who founded Smith College and when?

A: Smith College was founded in 1871 by Sophia Smith. The institution is also named after her.

Q: Where is Smith College located?

A: Smith College is located in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. Its street address is Elm St, Northampton, MA, 01063.

Q: Is Smith College part of any larger academic groups?

A: Yes, Smith College is a part of the Seven Sisters, a historic group of women's liberal arts colleges, and is also a member of the Five College Consortium.

Q: What is the approximate student enrollment at Smith College?

A: As of September 1, 2021, Smith College had 2475 full-time equivalent students.

Smith College

private women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts

Organization university Q49204

Facts

31 properties

Instance of: university, private not-for-profit educational institution, women's college^[12]^[13]
Inception: 1871^[20]
Founder: Sophia Smith^[14]
Headquarters location: Northampton^[16]
Country: United States^[11]
Official website: www.smith.edu^[21]
Part of: Seven Sisters^[18]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 42.318°, -72.638°
Academic calendar type: semester
Admission rate: +0.37
Admission yield rate: +0.27
Affiliation: National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities^[26]
Athletics program: Smith Pioneers
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: baccalaureate colleges: arts and sciences focus, high undergraduate, research doctoral: single program - other, four-year, small, highly residential, arts & sciences focus, some graduate coexistence, four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in^[32]^[33]^[34]^[35]^[36]^[37]
Chairperson: Mary Maples Dunn, Jill Ker Conway
Count of students: +2496, +2475^[28]^[29]
Described by source: 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[23]^[24]^[25]
Employees: +1276^[22]
Endowment: 2.6B (1.9B–2.6B, n=3)
Has works in the collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Industry: higher education^[19]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Northampton^[10]
Member of: Five College Consortium, Digital Library Federation, Women's College Coalition, Association of American Colleges and Universities, American Council on Education, National Humanities Alliance, Open Education Network, Center for Research Libraries^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Named after: Sophia Smith^[15]

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Owner of: WOZQ^[27]
P14536: 404416
Position held by head of the organization: President of Smith College^[30]
Postal code: 01060-2916^[17]
Social media followers: 230k (20k–230k, n=4)
Street address: Elm St, Northampton, MA, 01063
Total assets: +2735397166^[31]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 69

ROR ID

0497crr92

ISNI

000000041936885X, 0000000119314868

Legal Entity Identifier

549300C7SRCL4TVMZB13

VIAF cluster ID

158225466

Library of Congress authority ID

n79109755

GND ID

1001052-X

OpenAlex ID

F4320312555as of 2026-10-11

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Edition: 20261011 · as of 2026-10-11
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Bronze: not in the catalog
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GRID ID

grid.263724.6

Image (Wikimedia Commons)

Smith College.jpg ↗

API endpoint URL

ARCHON code

1288

BIBSYS ID

6021413

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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11997301k
CiNii Research ID: 1981993809650236576
Crunchbase organization ID: smith-college
Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID: Caribbean Sea
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/Smith-College
FAST ID: 537073
Facebook username: smithcollege
Freebase ID: /m/01kvrz
GeoNames ID: 4951119
Harper's tag: smith-college
INaturalist place ID: 148699
IdRef ID: 028073789
InfluenceWatch ID: non-profit/smith-college
Instagram username: smithcollege
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID: 167835
Itaú Cultural ID: instituicao393976/smith-college-massachusetts-eua
KISTI ID: K000207862
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID: 1001052-X
Kallías ID: KS00120741
Libraries Australia ID: 35508422
LittleSis organization ID: 15288
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 202524275
Minneapolis Institute of Art constituent ID: 19982
MusicBrainz place ID: 0ffee527-ba24-4ebc-a753-4fff67212e5b
NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA01054468
NL CR AUT ID: kn20081203014
NLA Trove people ID: 978596
NUKAT ID: n01015969
National Library of Ireland ID: vtls000900182
National Library of Israel ID (old): 000123688
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007268146205171
National Library of Poland MMS ID: 9814559976605606
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX134173
New York Times topic ID: organization/smith-college
Open Funder Registry funder ID: 100011066
OpenStreetMap way ID: 599989680
PermID: 4297999343
QS World University ID: smith-college
Quora topic ID: Smith-College
RERO ID (legacy): A000192086
Reddit topic ID: smith_college
Ringgold ID: 6089
SEVIS school ID: 8390
SNAC ARK ID: w6f802dt
SNARC ID: Prince Edward Islands
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID: 40413
Scilit organization ID: 2998
Subreddit: SmithCollege
Threads username: smithcollege
Times Higher Education World University ID: smith-college
Topic's main category: Category:Smith College
Wellcome Collection concept ID: vtmfydx5
World Higher Education Database ID: IAU-015490
X (Twitter) username: smithcollege
Yale LUX ID: group/e3011e43-c74a-4041-ad3f-099edd0b8ea6
YouTube channel ID: UCrnEz3-pbPQjoHRF6z29Ddg
Zhihu topic ID: 19742120

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Elevation above sea levelP2044

57 m 2026-09-26 S/SCH · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26

where from?

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Edition: 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence: CC BY 4.0
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🔗 Connections

Notable alumni 221

Sylvia Plath, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Margaret Mitchell, Gloria Steinem, Barbara Bush, Betty Friedan, Julia Child +213 more

Employees / affiliates 113

Sylvia Plath, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Chien-Shiung Wu, Anita Desai, Kurt Koffka, Florence R. Sabin, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Richard Wilbur +105 more

← Affiliated with 70

Jill G. De Villiers, Donna Riley, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Patty Freedson, Nicholas Horton, Alexandra M. Burgess, Alex Endert, Alison Smith Mitchell +62 more

← Archives at 49

Virginia Woolf, Thomas Carlyle, Sylvia Plath, Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Marian Anderson, Dorothy Height, Helen Gurley Brown +41 more

Instance of 2

university, women's college

Member of 2

Five College Consortium, Open Education Network

← Category combines topics 2

Category:Smith College alumni, Category:Smith College faculty

Academic calendar type 1

semester

Belongs to 1

Seven Sisters

Category for alumni of educational institution 1

Category:Smith College alumni

Category for employees of the organization 1

Category:Smith College faculty

Chairperson 1

Jill Ker Conway

Country 1

United States

Created notable works 1

Cornelia Oberlander

Described by source 1

Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID 1

Caribbean Sea

Founder 1

Sophia Smith

Has works in the collection 1

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Headquarters location 1

Northampton

Industry 1

higher education

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

Northampton

Named after 1

Sophia Smith

Part of 1

Seven Sisters

Participated in 1

SNAC

SNARC ID 1

Prince Edward Islands

Topic's main category 1

Category:Smith College

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Smith College

← Headquarters location 1

Sophia Smith Collection

← SNARC ID 1

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

← Used by 1

Luna Imaging

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Summary

Smith College is a university^[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Massachusetts high0.92confirmed7 independent sources

evidence “Steinem graduated magna cum laude from Smith College in Massachusetts in 1956 and earned a fellowship that gave her enough money to live in India.” siouxcityjournal.com · read source

Located in the administrative territorial entity New York emerging0.662 independent sources

evidence “Steinem graduated from Smith College and moved to New York in 1960, where she was often sexualized and dismissed while searching for reporting jobs in a male-dominated journalism industry.” us.cnn.com · read source

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[11] ↑ Smith College — country (P17): United States. Global LEI Index. Retrieved 2024-09-17. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Smith College — instance of (P31): private not-for-profit educational institution. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Smith College — instance of (P31): women's college. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Smith College — founder (P112): Sophia Smith. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Smith College — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Northampton. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Smith College — named after (P138): Sophia Smith. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Smith College — headquarters location (P159): Northampton. Global LEI Index. Retrieved 2024-09-17. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Smith College — postal code (P281): 01060-2916. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Smith College — part of (P361): Seven Sisters. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Smith College — industry (P452): higher education. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): Five College Consortium. fivecolleges.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-12. fivecolleges.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): Digital Library Federation. clir.org. clir.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): Women's College Coalition. womenscolleges.org. womenscolleges.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): Association of American Colleges and Universities. web.archive.org. Retrieved 2024-01-20. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): American Council on Education. web.archive.org. Retrieved 2024-01-20. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): National Humanities Alliance. web.archive.org. Retrieved 2024-01-26. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): Open Education Network. web.archive.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Smith College — member of (P463): Center for Research Libraries. web.archive.org. Retrieved 2023-10-16. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Smith College — inception (P571): 1871. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Smith College — official website (P856): https://www.smith.edu/. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Smith College — employees (P1128): 1276. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Smith College — described by source (P1343): 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Smith College — described by source (P1343): The Encyclopedia Americana. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Smith College — described by source (P1343): Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Smith College — affiliation (P1416): National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Smith College — owner of (P1830): WOZQ. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Smith College — count of students (P2196): 2496. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ Smith College — count of students (P2196): 2475. nacubo.org. Retrieved 2023-05-22. nacubo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ Smith College — position held by head of the organization (P2388): President of Smith College. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ Smith College — total assets (P2403): 2,735,397,166 US dollars. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ Smith College — Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (P2643): baccalaureate colleges: arts and sciences focus. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ Smith College — Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (P2643): high undergraduate. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
[34] ↑ Smith College — Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (P2643): research doctoral: single program - other. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
[35] ↑ Smith College — Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (P2643): four-year, small, highly residential. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
[36] ↑ Smith College — Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (P2643): arts & sciences focus, some graduate coexistence. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
[37] ↑ Smith College — Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (P2643): four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Smith College is an instance of university (Q3918) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

24d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

InfluenceWatch ID → non-profit/smith-college

Claims rich → —

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ InfluenceWatch ID: non-profit/smith-college, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/149825457|Smith College (#149825457)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5779|"
16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → smith-college

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: smith-college, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959913|smith college (#289959913)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗

INaturalist place ID → 148699

P14536 → 404416

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14536: 404416, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782462304762"
26w ago · 本日晴天 · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Industry → higher education

Qs world university id → —

Has works in the collection → Minneapolis Institute of Art

Freebase id → —

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