History Founding and 19th century Ĭollege Row, consisting of Williston, South, North, and Appleton halls, with Johnson Chapel at center House of Representatives, and notable writers, academics, politicians, entertainers, businesspeople, and activists. Stone, a President of Kenya ( Kenyatta), 2 Prime Ministers of Greece, 3 Speakers of the U.S.
The college is also a member of the Five College Consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other Pioneer Valley institutions: Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Īmong its alumni and affiliates are six Nobel Prize laureates, 20 Rhodes Scholars, Pulitzer Prize recipients, MacArthur Fellows, winners of the Academy, Tony, Grammy and Emmy Awards, President Calvin Coolidge, Chief Justice Harlan F. Amherst has historically had close relationships and rivalries with Williams College and Wesleyan University, which form the Little Three colleges. Amherst competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Students choose courses from 41 major programs in an open curriculum and are not required to study a core curriculum or fulfill any distribution requirements students may also design their own interdisciplinary major. Īmherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution 1,971 students were enrolled in fall 2021. Originally established as a men's college, Amherst became coeducational in 1975. The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Jeffery, Lord Amherst, Commander-in-Chief of British forces of North America during the French and Indian War.
Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. Amherst College ( / ˈ æ m ər s t/ ( listen) AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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