	Amherst College 2016 University Academic Rankings
Amherst College (i/ËˆÃ¦mÉ™rst/ AM-É™rst) 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 ninth out of all U.S. colleges and universities by Forbes in their 2015 rankings. Amherst competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Amherst has historically had close relationships and rivalries with Williams College and Wesleyan University which form the Little Three colleges. The college is a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other Pioneer Valley institutions. These include Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. History \| Founding and 19th century Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams remained open, Amherst was formed and diverged from its Williams roots into an individual institution. In 1812, funds were raised in Amherst for a secondary school, Amherst Academy; it opened December 1814. The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Jeffery, Lord Amherst, a veteran from the Seven Years' War and later commanding general of the British forces in North America. On November 18, 1817, a project was adopted at the Academy to raise funds for the free instruction of "indigent young men of promising talents and hopeful piety, who shall manifest a desire to obtain a liberal education with a sole view to the Christian ministry." This required a substantial investment from benefactors. During the fundraising for the project, it became clear that without larger designs, it would be impossible to raise sufficient funds. This led the committee overseeing the project to conclude that a new institution should be created. On August 18, 1818, the Amherst Academy board of trustees accepted this conclusion and began building a new college. Establishment Moore, then President of Williams College, however, still believed that Williamstown was an unsuitable location for a college, and with the advent of Amherst College was elected its first president on May 8, 1821. At its opening, Amherst had forty-seven students. Fifteen of these had followed Moore from Williams College. Those fifteen represented about one-third of the whole number at Amherst, and about one-fifth of the whole number in the three classes to which they belonged in Williams College. President Moore died on June 29, 1823, and was replaced with a Williams College trustee, Heman Humphrey. Williams alumni are fond of an apocryphal story ascribing the removal of books from the Williams College library to Amherst College, but there is no contemporaneous evide ... [more on wikipedia]

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Amherst College Details

Amherst College Details
detail	value
state	Massachusetts
conference	New England Small College Ath Conf
public	Private
scores	2155/1437/32
level	Elite
rank	[86
overall ROI rank	[158
size	small
undergrads	1792
grads	0
price	64006
drop	3
stem	14
research	0
scores valid	True

Common Questions...

What are the academic rankings for Amherst College?

1. number 86 for Academics.

2. number 158 for ROI (Return on Investment).

What universities are similar to Amherst College?

1. Washington and Lee University

2. Hamilton College

3. Pomona College

4. Wellesley College

5. Claremont McKenna College

6. Middlebury College

7. Bowdoin College

National Academic Rankings

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Amherst College National Academic Rankings

Amherst College National Academic Rankings
category	rank	scores	difficulty	smartest	brainpower	faculty	research	salary ROI	overall ROI
Top250	86	25	70	149	63	153	159	214	158
All	71	25	59	93	62	82	82	95	94
All Nonivy	63	18	53	89	55	79	79	94	90
Private	44	24	55	67	38	53	53	87	72
New England Region	41	14	37	67	29	60	60	79	58
State of Massachusetts	12	6	10	13	9	12	12	18	14
Top Ten Top250	86	25	70	149	63	153	159	214	158

Peer Universities / Similar Universities

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Amherst College Peer Universities, Similar Universities to Amherst College

Amherst College Peer Universities, Similar Universities to Amherst College
match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
86.32	Washington and Lee University	Virginia	Old Dominion Athletic Conference	Private	Elite	117	46
86.27	Hamilton College	New York	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	115	153
86.14	Pomona College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	52	125
85.14	Wellesley College	Massachusetts	New England Women's & Men's At...	Private	Elite	78	158
84.84	Claremont McKenna College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	95	118
84.73	Middlebury College	Vermont	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	90	135
79.95	Bowdoin College	Maine	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	64	162
79.92	Davidson College	North Carolina	Pioneer Football League / Atla...	Private	Excellent	155	129
79.52	Kenyon College	Ohio	North Coast Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	147	91
79.22	Rhodes College	Tennessee	Southern Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	191	147
79.19	Occidental College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Excellent	158	162
79.10	Macalester College	Minnesota	Minnesota Intercollegiate Ath Conf	Private	Excellent	133	146
78.82	Lewis & Clark College	Oregon	Northwest Conference	Private	Excellent	179	221
78.39	Dickinson College	Pennsylvania	Centennial Conference	Private	Excellent	187	201
78.27	Vassar College	New York	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Elite	82	177
78.25	Wheaton College	Illinois	College Conference of Illinois...	Private	Excellent	149	114
78.22	Gettysburg College	Pennsylvania	Centennial Conference	Private	Excellent	170	148
77.98	Barnard College	New York	Ivy League	Private	Excellent	104	176
77.41	Wesleyan University	Connecticut	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	73	137
76.12	Dartmouth College	New Hampshire	Ivy League	Private	Elite	19	21
75.51	Yale University	Connecticut	Ivy League	Private	Elite	3	37
75.42	University of Chicago	Illinois	University Athletic Association	Private	Elite	10	14
70.82	Colgate University	New York	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	92	83
70.70	Oberlin College	Ohio	North Coast Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	81	55
70.28	Scripps College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	127	204
70.24	University of Richmond	Virginia	Colonial Athletic Association ...	Private	Excellent	128	150
69.87	Brandeis University	Massachusetts	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	46	116
69.12	Wake Forest University	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	66	50
68.84	Santa Clara University	California	West Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	123	98
68.56	College of William and Mary	Virginia	Colonial Athletic Association	Public	Excellent	54	60
68.54	Southern Methodist University	Texas	American Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	80	73
68.19	Emory University	Georgia	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	36	29
68.18	Tulane University of Louisiana	Louisiana	American Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	61	106
67.88	Boston College	Massachusetts	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	47	75
67.78	George Washington University	Washington DC	Atlantic 10 Conference	Private	Excellent	51	135
67.33	Boston University	Massachusetts	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	45	116
67.32	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Excellent	37	64

Academic Peer Universities / Similar Academics

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Amherst College Academic Peer Universities, Similar Academic Universities to Amherst College

Amherst College Academic Peer Universities, Similar Academic Universities to Amherst College
match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
96.94	Wellesley College	Massachusetts	New England Women's & Men's At...	Private	Elite	78	158
95.33	Carleton College	Minnesota	Midwest Conference	Private	Elite	84	43
94.73	Oberlin College	Ohio	North Coast Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	81	55
94.33	Wesleyan University	Connecticut	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	73	137
93.63	Vassar College	New York	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Elite	82	177
92.55	Middlebury College	Vermont	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	90	135
90.64	New England Small College Ath Conf (Low)	-	New England Small College Ath Conf	-Conf-	Excellent	-	165
90.35	George Washington University	Washington DC	Atlantic 10 Conference	Private	Excellent	51	135
89.66	New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference (Average)	-	New England Women's & Men's At...	-Conf-	Excellent	-	60
88.35	Lehigh University	Pennsylvania	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	69	32
88.08	Patriot League (Average)	-	Patriot League	-Conf-	Excellent	-	43
88.03	Stevens Institute of Technology	New Jersey	Empire Eight	Private	Excellent	99	43
87.75	Tulane University of Louisiana	Louisiana	American Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	61	106
87.01	United States Air Force Academy	Colorado	Mountain West Conference	Public	Excellent	91	30
85.88	Colorado School of Mines	Colorado	Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference	Public	Good	84	24
82.38	University of Connecticut	Connecticut	Big East Conference	Public	Good	87	139
82.26	Brigham Young University-Provo	Utah	Other / West Coast Conference	Private	Good	72	27
81.42	Missouri University of Science and Technology	Missouri	Great Lakes Valley Conference	Public	Good	105	32
81.27	Big Ten Conference (Low)	-	Big Ten Conference	-Conf-	Good	-	51
80.93	University of Georgia	Georgia	Southeastern Conference	Public	Good	82	65
80.22	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Virginia	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Good	75	40
78.02	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Massachusetts	Mid - American Conference / At...	Public	AboveAverage	88	144
75.68	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	AboveAverage	58	31
72.16	University of South Florida	Florida	American Athletic Conference	Public	AboveAverage	94	113
69.21	University of Houston	Texas	American Athletic Conference	Public	AboveAverage	89	60

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