Amherst College

Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, is well-known for its rigorous academic environment. Amherst is part of the Five Colleges consortium, along with Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Students may enroll in classes at any of these colleges.

Amherst is a four-year university that only accepts undergraduate students; in the fall of 2018, the school had 1,855 students enrolled. Admissions are highly selective, and it frequently ranks at or near the top of most liberal arts school rankings. Students select courses from 38 major programs in an open curriculum; they are not required to study a core curriculum or meet any distribution requirements; students may also design their own interdisciplinary major.

Amherst College has been ranked first overall among 266 liberal arts colleges in the United States ten times since the rankings' inception in 1987 and was ranked second in 2016 behind Williams. In 2018, Amherst was ranked as the best liberal arts college in the country by The Wall Street Journal.

Website: https://www.amherst.edu/admission