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    Amherst College

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    • Listing Type: Colleges & Universities
    • Top Majors: Biological Sciences, Business and Entrepreneurship, Languages and Literature, Law, Psychology and Counseling, Liberal Arts, STEM
    • Type: Private, Nonprofit
    • Degrees Awarded: 4 Year
    • Campus Setting: Suburban
    • Testing Requirements: ACT, SAT, Test Optional
    • Financial Aid: Grants/Scholarships, Loans, Work Study
    • Gender: Coed
    • Country: United States
    • In State Tuition: $66,650
    • Out of State Tuition: $66,650
    • Delivery: Day, Residential
    • Affiliation: The Common App, The Coalition Application, Army ROTC, Air Force ROTC
    • Religious Affiliation: None
    • CEEB: 3003
    • IPED: 164465
    • Location:Amherst, Massachusetts
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    Overview

    Amherst is an undergraduate, residential, liberal arts college that awards the Bachelor of Arts degree in 37 majors. Special features include the open curriculum (based on education as a process), opportunities for collaborative faculty-student research, and community-based learning.

    Since its founding in 1821, Amherst College has become one of the premier liberal arts colleges in the nation, enrolling nearly 2000 talented, energetic and diverse young men and women.

    Amherst College educates men and women of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.

    Amherst brings together the most promising students, whatever their financial need, in order to promote diversity of experience and ideas within a purposefully small residential community. Working with faculty, staff, and administrators dedicated to intellectual freedom and the highest standards of instruction in the liberal arts, Amherst undergraduates assume substantial responsibility for undertaking inquiry and for shaping their education within and beyond the curriculum.

    Amherst College is committed to learning through close colloquy and to expanding the realm of knowledge through scholarly research and artistic creation at the highest level. Its graduates link learning with leadership—in service to the College, to their communities, and to the world beyond.