We Are Fueling Innovation
At UMass Amherst, we expand educational access, fuel innovation and creativity, and use our knowledge for the betterment of the world. Consistently ranked among U.S. News & World Report's best universities, at No. 26 we are the only public university in New England in the top 30. Since 2010, we have soared from No. 106 to No. 58 among top national universities overall.
Statewide Reach, Global Impact
As the flagship public land-grant university of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, we drive positive change for the people of our state—and beyond—preparing students to take on tomorrow’s challenges and producing bold, impactful research. UMass Amherst alone enrolls more first-year students from Massachusetts than the commonwealth's eight top private universities combined.
Driving Massachusetts Forward
of the Undergraduate Student
Body is from Massachusetts
of Alumni Remain in Massachusetts,
Fueling the State's Innovation Economy
Return on State Investment
We educate more first-year students from Massachusetts than the top eight private institutions in the commonwealth combined.
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Setting the Standard
We're not just participating in global exchange. We're driving it. As a Fulbright Top Producing Institution, UMass Amherst empowers scholars to forge vital international connections, shaping progress and teaching worldwide. These ambassadors of knowledge advance the university's commitment to impactful, world-changing research and education.
Visionary Faculty
of the Best Scientists in the World (Research.com, 2024)
of the World's Most Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
Faculty Members Conducting Cutting-Edge Research
Destination of Choice
As the reputation of the flagship campus continues to grow, first-year undergraduate applications have increased by more than 25 percent over the past 10 years. UMass Amherst received over 50,000 first-year applications for fall 2024, the most in our history.
An Increasingly Diverse Student Body
ALANA (African American, Latino/a, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Native American) Domestic Students
First Generation
Pell Grant Recipients
(undergraduate student body, fall 2023)
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Putting Students on a Trajectory for Success
Students Returning for
a Second Year
Students Graduating within
Six Years
of Undergraduates Obtain a Career Outcome Related to Their Field of Study
UMass Amherst is the No. 1 public research university in New England in non-medical R&D expenditures, and holds the highest Carnegie Classification as a doctoral university with "very high research activity."
Research Highlights
In 2024, around 2 million people in the U.S. received a new cancer diagnosis, while hundreds of thousands of patients continue to die from this complex disease each year. Ashish Kulkarni’s research advances personalized treatment approaches to target aggressive and hard-to-treat forms of cancer.
Growing up in Gujarat, India, undergraduate Shiven Patel saw first-hand the plight of underprivileged people with visual impairments. Today, he studies computer science and contributes to vital research to develop state-of-the-art guide dog robots that help visually impaired individuals navigate their worlds.
Climate change and environmental degradation threaten the vitality of flowering plants, which form the basis of our global food supply. Renowned scholar Alice Cheung conducts groundbreaking research that sheds light on the fundamentals of plant reproduction while opening doors to engineering more resilient, nutritious, and tasty crops.
This pioneering initiative supports local public health nurses and their health departments in each of Massachusetts’ 351 cities and towns, focusing on building a stronger and more responsive public health workforce to enhance health outcomes statewide.
PhD student Chris Caron combines dual interests in physics and electrical engineering to advance research on trapped ion quantum processor designs. This cutting-edge research aims to enable scalable quantum computing—paving the way for major advances in simulation, drug discovery, cryptography, and machine learning.
Who (or what) searches the search engines of the future? Award-winning UMass computer scientists introduce a cost-effective method to redesign search engines for Artificial Intelligence.