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Now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year! 

One Life-Changing Semester

Whether it's studying biodiversity off the coast of Maine, the impacts of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico or the depths of our humanity in ocean literature, Williams-Mystic Coastal & Ocean Studies students embark on the exploration of a lifetime.

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“This program really is for everyone ... because the ocean necessarily creates the connection between all these fields that society tells us are different.”

- Alex, Spring '19, Williams College

Accepting applications for spring 2025 and fall 2026! →

Williams-Mystic is currently accepting applications for the spring 2025 and fall 2026 semesters. Apply now!

The Williams-Mystic eGam newsletter archives are now online! →

The eGam is a newsletter about the latest happenings in the Williams-Mystic community sent via email periodically to alumni and friends of the program.

Williams-Mystic Partners in $4.9 Million Grant to Examine Historical Injustice in New England →

Learn more about Williams-Mystic’s crucial role in this three-year project that will use maritime history as a basis for studying historical injustices and generating new insights into the relationship between European colonization in North America, the dispossession of Native American land, and racial slavery in New England.