Are You Ready?
The regular decision application deadline is January 15, 2025.
At UMass Amherst, we welcome you to join our diverse, inclusive community of dreamers, innovators, creators, and doers. Find out how you can explore your interests and build skills to make your mark on the world with a UMass education.
This is your moment.
This is your opportunity.
This is UMass.
By the Numbers
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Alumni Worldwide
U.S. News & World Report Ranking Among 225 Top National Public Universities
Best Value Colleges (Public), The Princeton Review
Best Campus Food, The Princeton Review
Over 20 percent of UMass Amherst undergraduates are first-generation college students—trailblazers in their families. Their stories are ones of ambition and finding belonging at UMass.
EXPLORE OUR PROGRAMS
With 110 undergraduate majors and 127 graduate programs offered on campus and online, there are hundreds of opportunities to pursue your passion at UMass Amherst. Study on campus or take advantage of a wide array of flexible and innovative learning options.
UMass Amherst students benefit from the Five College Consortium, a unique partnership that allows them to tap into the extensive resources of our flagship research campus and four top-ranked, private liberal arts colleges nearby.
News and Events
New research co-led by Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, assistant professor of health policy and management in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, looks at effective strategies for giving up e-cigarettes.
UMass Amherst computer scientist Amir Houmansadr has turned to game theory and AI to study digital surveillance in China and learn how to circumvent the world’s most sophisticated surveillance networks.
A new UMass Amherst study reveals an “urgent need” for diet improvement to support the health of parent and child.
The novel device created by a team of UMass Amherst engineers and physicists manipulates the pH of a cell’s environment more precisely than previously achieved.