unitid 166629 · Amherst, MA · public 4-year · city (small)
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, US
- founded
- 1863
- enrollment 2023
- 37,599
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- umass.edu/
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium, along with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley. wikipedia rev 1361886072 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
60%
16th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
23,671
91st pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
16th pctl among public 4-years
completion
83%
finish within 150% time
96th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$34,549
95th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$22,383
after aid, aided students
95th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$71,631
after entry, Title IV students
91st pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$22,763
78th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $10,164 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k17%
- 30-48k11%
- 48-75k15%
- 75-110k17%
- 110k+40%
- Median family income
- $74,291
- First-generation students
- 22%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $17,772
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.1× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology, General. | 617 | $62,236 | $26,000 |
| Computer Science. | 498 | $132,046 | $23,569 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 489 | $150,611 | — |
| Economics. | 417 | $91,255 | $26,000 |
| Biology, General. | 371 | $68,103 | $27,000 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 343 | $98,716 | $23,250 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 317 | $91,248 | $22,014 |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 297 | $74,087 | $25,125 |
| Mathematics. | 297 | $84,846 | $23,250 |
| Computer Science. | 291 | — | — |
| Public Health. | 266 | $66,020 | $26,000 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other. | 265 | $57,091 | $29,309 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,351 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (939) · basketball player (532) · university teacher (328) · writer (178) · politician (120) · poet (74) · computer scientist (71) · journalist (64)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Joseph Hooton Taylor Physics 1993
- Russell Alan Hulse Physics 1993
- Vernon L. Smith Economics 2002
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Richard Gere
87 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bill Cosby
84 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Russell Alan Hulse
68 wikis · Public domain
Joseph Hooton Taylor
68 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Liev Schreiber
60 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lynn Margulis
58 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.5
Natalie Cole
57 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ted Hughes
57 wikis · Public domain
Julius Erving
51 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Vernon L. Smith
51 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bill Pullman
51 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marilynne Robinson
45 wikis · GFDL 1.2
Catherine Coleman
39 wikis · Public domain
Max Roach
39 wikis · Public domain
Hina Rabbani Khar
39 wikis · CC BY 2.0
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built 2026-07-17
Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1361886072), CC BY-SA 4.0.