Sabrina Lin is an Asian American student from California who graduated last week. "Growing up in California, I actually had no idea Amherst College existed until the summer I was applying to college," ...

Amherst College will contribute $2.5 million to the town of Amherst over the next three years to support local schools, emergency services, and infrastructure. Skip to main content.

AMHERST — It began as a one-building school, with a few dozen students, a tiny handful of faculty, and a curriculum based around math, Latin, oratory, philosophy and, above all, piety. The ...

AMHERST, Mass. — Amherst College will no longer give admissions preference to the children of alumni, the school announced Wednesday, ending a practice that has been criticized for giving an ...

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. With small classes, an open curriculum, and a sole focus on undergraduate education, the average class size is about 19 ...

Amherst College announced today that it is ending its practice of giving admissions preference to legacies - the children of the college’s alumni. In addition to scrapping the policy, Amherst ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Amherst College has hosted 5 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2004 Debate. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2015 ...

The life-sized nude statue of Sabrina, goddess of Britain's Severn River, has led a hectic existence ever since a state official first presented her to Amherst College in 1857.* From the first, ...

AMHERST — It was the biggest, most expensive, most audacious building ever conceived at Amherst College, a terraced glass-and-steel science center nestled into a hill, designed by a celebrated ...

Amherst College students, faculty and alumni have decided on the school's first official mascot: the Mammoth. Nearly 9,295 alumni and students participated in a vote on the mascot from March 20 to 31.