Undergraduate Enrollment, Fall 2020
- 22,660 undergraduate enrollment
- 78% in-state
- 22% out-of-state
2020 Entering Undergraduate Class
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First-Year Profile
- 40,253 first-year applications
- 65% admit rate
- 5,025 students
- 33% ALANA (African-American, Latino, Asian, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and Native American)
- 3,698 in-state students
- 943 out-of-state students
- 384 international students
- Middle 50% GPA* - 3.7 – 4.2 (4.0 scale)
- Middle 50% SAT - 1220 – 1370 (Evidence Based Reading & Writing/Math)
- Middle 50% ACT - 27 – 32
- *GPA is based on academic courses only and weighted for Honors and College level courses per the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Beginning with applicants for spring 2021, UMass is test optional.
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The middle 50% is a range, specifically the range of test scores or GPA between the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile for the given group. It is the “half in the middle” that’s left if you remove the top 25% and the bottom 25%. For example, at UMass Amherst last year the middle 50% testing range on the SAT for enrolling first-year students was 1210-1370. This means that of the 5,000 enrolled first-year students, about 2,500 (the half in the middle) had a score that was in the range. From this you also know that about 1,250 of enrolled students scored higher than this range, and about 1,250 scored a 1200 or below.
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Transfer Profile
- Average GPA - 3.35
- Joint Admissions/MassTransfer - 310
- 1,090 students
- 3132 transfer applications
Academic Offerings
- 10 academic colleges
- 110 bachelor's degree programs
- 5 associate's degree programs
- Average class size: 36
- 80% of classes have fewer than 40 students
Faculty
- More than 1,400 full-time instructional faculty
- 95% hold the highest degree in their fields
- 17:1 student/faculty ratio
First-year Retention Rate
- 89% for latest cohort
Graduation Rates
- 6-year graduation rate: 83.4% for latest cohort
- 5-year graduation rate: 83.0% for latest cohort
- 4-year graduation rate: 76.2% for latest cohort
