We Are Creative and Entrepreneurial
Breaking New Ground
UMass Amherst is committed to expanding the impact of research and scholarship in new directions, with new partners, and through creative approaches to collaboration.
Scholars across degrees and disciplines are partnering with industry to bring their research to the marketplace. From the Innovation Challenge—a four-part, cross-campus entrepreneurship competition for students and young alumni—to facilitating venture funds, UMass encourages the entrepreneurial spirit that fills our community with innovators.
As the no. 1 Public Research University in New England, research at UMass Amherst is a major contributor to the Massachusetts economy by generating new knowledge and applying discoveries toward progress for the common good. Opportunities are available for students to participate in research at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The UMass Innovation Institute collaborates with partners throughout the commonwealth to provide creative approaches to society's biggest challenges. These relationships help to develop novel technologies, facilitate center-scale proposals, and support community-engaged research driving regional and national economic growth.
The UMass Innovation Institute collaborates with partners throughout the commonwealth to provide creative approaches to society's biggest challenges. These relationships help to develop novel technologies, facilitate center-scale proposals, and support community-engaged research driving regional and national economic growth.
Scholars, authors, philosophers, artists, and performers across humanities and arts-based disciplines guide creative and curious minds through an education that combines the character of an exceptional liberal arts college with the expansiveness of a flagship research university. Through the exploration of visual and performing arts, literature and languages, philosophy and history, and so much more, students are given opportunities to create original work, express themselves, explore ideas, ask questions, and pose solutions—preparing them for life in a world of change.