About University of Massachusetts

The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public academe system and the lonesome public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The academe system includes five campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and a medical intellectual in Worcester), and a satellite campus, with system administration in Boston and Shrewsbury. The system is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and across its campuses enrolls 73,000 students.

Amherst (/ˈæmərst/ (listen)) is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (although the county chair is Northampton). The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. The reveal of the town is pronounced without the h (“AM-erst”) by natives and long-time residents, giving rise to the local saying, “only the ‘h’ is silent”, in mention both to the pronunciation and to the town’s politically alert populace.

Amherst has three census-designated places: Amherst Center, North Amherst, and South Amherst.

Amherst is allocation of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lying 22 miles (35 km) north of the city of Springfield, Amherst is considered the northernmost town in the Hartford-Springfield Metropolitan Region, “The Knowledge Corridor”. Amherst is plus located in the Pioneer Valley, which encompasses Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin counties.