UMass Amherst offers the choices of a large, diverse campus with the community feel of a small college. Our academic programs nurture scholarship, research, faculty-student collaboration, and experiential education. Our campus organizations, living-learning residence halls, and community service programs help students build leadership skills and hands-on experience that lead to meaningful careers.
UMass Amherst is one of the nation's top public research universities. The campus attracts over $140 million in externally sponsored research each year, demonstrating its contribution to Massachusetts's position as a technological and economic leader. Funding supports the creation of new knowledge and its translation into the technical innovations and scholarly works that create opportunity for students, faculty and the public.
The HSV-UMass collaborative graduate program utilizes the unique nature of the HSV site, which is a National Historic Landmark of over a dozen buildings in a pristine setting in Pittsfield, Mass. "The setting is a wonder[...]
January 25, 2011
UMass Amherst and Hancock Shaker Village have announced a groundbreaking partnership that will create a new two-year master's degree program that combines the university's strengths in architecture and public history wit[...]
August 17, 2009
