Yes, Hamilton’s resources are stretched more thinly. In 2016-17, 8 of the 507 seniors at Hamilton majored in classics, and 7 of the 628 seniors at Haverford and Bryn Mawr were classics majors. Of course, one has to factor in the 5 or so PhD students BMC produces each year.
Faculty by each school:
[ul][]Hamilton: 3 full-time, 1 visiting
[]Haverford/BMC: 12 full-time, 3 visiting
[list][]Haverford: 3 full-time, 1 visiting
[]Bryn Mawr Classics: 5 full-time
[li]Bryn Mawr Classical Archaeology: 4 full-time, 2 visiting[/ul][/list][/li]Students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr also have access to courses at Swarthmore (4 full-time, 2 visiting) and Penn (13 standing faculty, 3 lecturers).
Bryn Mawr has additional resources such as the Rhys Carpenter library, one of the best specialized collections of classics books in the country, and a small but representative collection of ~6000 Greek and Roman artifacts.
It’s also worth noting that Haverford and Bryn Mawr students have access to other ancient language offerings at Penn (Akkadian, Sumerian, ancient Egyptian, Sanskrit, Hebrew, etc.) as well as courses in Mesopotamian archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, Etruscan archaeology, Bronze Age Aegean archaeology, etc. on top of Greek and Roman archaeology. As I noted earlier, Penn’s archaeology museum is one of the best in the world, its collections including the largest collection of Levantine objects in the western hemisphere, one of the 9 largest collections of cuneiform tablets in the world, and the 8th largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.
It’s not a mark against Hamilton to note that its classics program pales in comparison to the offerings of the Quaker consortium – most classics programs do, universities and LACs alike. As one measure, admittedly at the graduate level, Bryn Mawr fared well against some heavyweights in the 2010 NRC ranking of classics programs:
1-4 Stanford
1-7 Harvard
1-9 Columbia (Classical Studies)
2-10 Berkeley (AHMA) / Princeton
2-11 Duke
3-16 Cincinnati
4-15 Michigan (IPCAA) / Penn
5-16 Michigan (Classics)
6-17 Berkeley (Classics)
6-19 Columbia (Classics)
7-19 UCLA / UNC Chapel Hill
7-20 Bryn Mawr
9-21 Brown
10-21 Cornell