With 17 varsity sports, including NCAA Division I men's soccer and women's water polo, Hartwick College is well known for its strong athlet ics and high-quality academic program.

The other 15 varsity sports at Hartwick are NCAA Division III. The men's soccer team is a past winner of the NCAA Division I championship and has had 26 All-Americans in its glorious history. Hartwick's men's basketball team reached the Final Four in 1988, the field hockey team advanced to the Final Four in 1991 and 1996, and the women's lacrosse team made an NCAA Final Four appearance in 1998. The Division I women's water polo team reached the Final Four in 2004 and has been to the NCAA Division I Championships three of the past four years, including a fifth-place effort in 2007.

On an individual basis, Hartwick has had former national champions in swimming and track and field. The athletic program has had numerous All-Americans and Academic All-Americans in many different sports with the water polo team having four two-year All-Americans in just seven years of competition.

Hartwick is located atop Oyaron Hill, overlooking Oneonta, New York. The City of Oneonta, which has around 16,500 residents, is situated almost half way between Albany and Binghamton on the Susquehanna River and is nestled in the foothills of the Catskills. It is 190 miles northwest of New York City, and 20 miles southwest of historic Cooperstown, the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

There are 1,480 students from 38 states and 29 countries on the 425-acre Hartwick campus. The College also operates the 914-acre Pine Lake Environmental Campus, located just 10 minutes from the main campus.

Hartwick, with an average class size of 18 students, is a private, nondenominational, four-year liberal arts and sciences college. The school was founded in 1797 as the first Lutheran seminary in the United States. Hartwick grants a student personalized education given the fact the student-to-faculty ratio is 12 to 1, students really get a chance to know their professors.

Hartwick is an independent, national liberal arts and sciences college that is strictly undergraduate, coeducational, and residential. The College believes firmly in the value of an experiential education, emphasizing hands-on learning and research as well as study abroad to best prepare its students for the world of their future.