Get Ready for Fall 2021
UMass Amherst will provide a full college experience in Fall 2021, with face-to-face instruction, full residence halls, and student events and activities.
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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.
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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.
Carolina Aragón and her students design attention-grabbing art installations that highlight the impacts of climate change.
Take Charge. Stay Curious.
Michael Nicholson '16, '17MPP was elected mayor of his hometown of Gardner, MA, just a few short years after graduating.
News and Events
A team of researchers headquartered at UMass Amherst has recently discovered that fear plays an important, unrecognized role in the underdevelopment, and increased vulnerability, of backyard songbirds.
Yinghui (Mark) He, a 2020 graduate from the department of music and dance, earned second place honors in the 2021 National Student Auditions held last month by the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
We’re all familiar with the startle reflex – but the brain also has an important pre-attentive mechanism to tamp down that response and tune out irrelevant sounds so you can mind the task in front of you.
UMass Amherst’s Jim Kurose, is part of the research team recently awarded a $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build the internet of the future.
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The University Relations Social Media Team is the official voice of UMass Amherst on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and more. On our channels, you’ll find stories of engagement and activism, academic excellence, remarkable research and the many ways we are pioneers, builders and unconventional doers.
Have fun exploring our main channels, or view a full list of social media accounts here.