<p>The Five Colleges are good, but not only because one can take classes at any of the five. There are Five College professors - my d’s main mentor was a Five-College Professor of Early Music, international famous, based at Mt. Holyoke, but who taught his classes mostly at Smith and UMass. There was one well-known music prof at Amherst who couldn’t fill up his ethnomusicology course there, so he taught it on the Smith campus.</p>
<p>There are also Five-College Certificate programs that majorly extend the range of offerings far beyond what LACs are usually able to offer. You might want to visit their webite:</p>
<p>[Five</a> Colleges, Incorporated: Departments/Programs/Committees/Councils](<a href=“http://www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_deptprog.html]Five”>http://www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_deptprog.html)</p>