(一)普遍要求
科尔比学院本科生须完成专业学科以外的多项毕业要求 (General requirement),包括大学英语写作 (First-year, second-year and third-year writing)、一门外语(国际生可免)、两门自然科学(Natural Sciences, 其中一门须包含实验课),以及数理 (Quantitative Reasoning) 艺术 (Arts)、历史 (History)、文学 (Literature)、社会科学 (Social Sciences)各一门。本科生四年内需完成至少128个学时的课程,其中至少113个小时须为常规的学术课程,剩下15小时可从其它非课程领域获得,例如独立研究 (Independent Study)。大约三分之二的学生利用校外活动学习。学生可以到爱尔兰、法国、英国等国家学习,也可选择国内校外活动学习。
(二)专业要求
科尔比学院共有24个学部 (Department),不同的专业的毕业要求也不尽相同,需要更多信息的申请者可以到学校的官网进行查看。这二十四个学部包括:
Administrative Science;
African Studies;
African-American Studies;
American Studies;
Anthropology;
Art;
Biology;
Chemistry;
Classics;
Computer Science;
Creative Writing;
East Asian Studies;
Economics;
Education;
English;
Environmental Studies;
French and Italian;
Geology;
German;
Government;
History;
International Studies;
Jewish Studies;
Latin American Studies;
Mathematics;
Music;
Philosophy;
Physics and Astronomy;
Psychology;
Religious Studies;
Russian;
Science, Technology and Society;
Sociology;
Spanish;
Theater and Dance;
Women‘s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies