Amherst College
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| Motto | Terras Irradient (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Let them enlighten the lands |
| Type |
Private Liberal Arts |
| Established | 1821 |
| Endowment | $2.032 billion (2016) |
| President | Carolyn Martin |
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Academic staff
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285 (Fall 2015) |
| Undergraduates | 1,795 (Fall 2015) |
| Location | Amherst, Massachusetts, United States |
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Rural 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) |
| Colors | Purple and white |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – NESCAC |
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Sporting affiliations
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Annapolis Group NEASC AICUM 568 Group NAICU |
| Website | www |
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| University rankings | |
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| National | |
| Forbes | 12 |
| Liberal arts colleges | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 2 |
| Washington Monthly | 3 |
Amherst College (
i/ˈæmərst/AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Lord Jeffery Amherst. Amherst was established as a men's college and became coeducational in 1975.
Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,795 students in the fall of 2015. Students choose courses from 38 major programs in an open curriculum. Students are not required to study a core curriculum or fulfill any distribution requirements and may even design their own unique interdisciplinary major. Freshmen may take advanced courses, and seniors may take introductory ones. For the class of 2020, Amherst received 8,397 applications and accepted 1,149 yielding a 13.7% acceptance rate. Amherst was ranked as the second best liberal arts college in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and 12th out of all U.S. colleges and universities by Forbes in their 2016 rankings. Amherst competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.
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