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Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2023 and Spring 2024!

Williams-Mystic is currently accepting applications for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters. We highly encourage students to sign up for our email list, apply now, or request information.

image shows students standing around ecology professor Tim Pusak learning about tide pools in Alaska

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.

Alumni Stories

“When I was first deciding where I wanted to spend my fall semester, I remember reading reviews from past Colby students for Williams-Mystic. One review said that the best part about their WM semester was the aspect of communal living… Having completed my own WM semester, I wholeheartedly agree with my now fellow WM alum. I learned so much and had so many new experiences in Mystic, but what made that all so incredible was the people I did it all with.”