About University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public land-grant research academic world in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it is the flagship and the largest campus in the University of Massachusetts system, as without difficulty as the first established. It is with a aficionado of the Five College Consortium, along once four additional colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Hampshire College.

UMass Amherst has an annual enrollment of greater than 30,000 students, along with nearly 1,300 capability members. It is the third largest university in Massachusetts, behind Boston University and Harvard University. The university offers academic degrees in 109 undergraduate, 77 master’s and 48 doctoral programs. Programs are coordinated in nine schools and colleges. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”. According to the National Science Foundation, the college circles spent $211 million on research and fee in 2018.

The university’s 21 varsity athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I and are collectively known as the Minutemen and Minutewomen. The university is a believer of the Atlantic 10 Conference, while playing ice hockey in Hockey East and football as an FBS Independent.

Past and present students and gift include 4 Nobel Prize laureates, a National Humanities Medal winner, numerous Fulbright, Goldwater, Churchill, Truman, and Gates Scholars, Olympic Gold Medalists, a United States Poet Laureate, as without difficulty as several Pulitzer Prize recipients and Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award winners.

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 seat is Northampton). The town is house to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. The read out 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 citation both to the pronunciation and to the town’s politically swift populace.

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

Amherst is ration 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 as well as located in the Pioneer Valley, which encompasses Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin counties.