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The Minutemen represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Independent in the NCAA. Although UMass began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879, [ 1 ] the school's official record book does not generally include entries from before the 1960s, as records from before this period are often incomplete and inconsistent.
U.S. News & World Report ' s 2025 edition of America's Best Colleges ranked UMass Amherst tied for 58th on their list of "Best National Universities", and tied for 26th among 225 public universities in the U.S. [38] UMass Amherst is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. [39]
For example, 412 students applied for transfer admission into Amherst College and admitted about 6% of them; [6] in contrast, the much larger Arizona State University had 11,427 transfer applicants and admitted 84% of them. One report described transfer students as "academic nomads" struggling to keep credit hours they have earned.
The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.The university system includes six campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, a medical school in Worcester and a law school in Dartmouth), a satellite campus in Springfield [5] [6] and 25 smaller campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts ...
The 2024 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium located in Hadley, Massachusetts and compete as an FBS independent .
The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering is one of the schools and colleges at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.It was established on September 1, 1947 as the School of Engineering and now considered as the best public engineering school in New England, enrolling 2250 undergraduate students and 610 graduate students including 300 M.S. students and 310 Ph.D ...
In 1964, the school moved to its current building in the heart of the UMass Amherst campus. [12] In 1983, the School of Business Administration changed its name to School of Management. In 1998 the Isenberg School of Management was named after Eugene Isenberg, [ 13 ] the chairman and CEO of Nabors Industries , [ 14 ] which at the time was a ...
The Five College Consortium (often referred to as simply the Five Colleges) comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, totaling approximately 38,000 students. [1]