advanced courses, and seniors may take introductory ones. Amherst College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
Forty-five percent of Amherst students in the class of 2019 were double majors. Amherst College has been the first college to have undergraduate departments in the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies; Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought; and Neuroscience and has helped to pioneer other interdisciplinary programs, including Asian Languages and Civilizations. Its most popular majors, by 2021 graduates, were:
Mathematics (40)
Econometrics and Quantitative Economics (34)
Research and Experimental Psychology (31)
Political Science and Government (25)
History (22)
Biology/Biological Sciences (21)
Neuroscience (19)
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence (19)
The Amherst library is named for long-time faculty member, poet Robert Frost. The student-faculty ratio is 7:1 and 84% of classes have fewer than 30 students.
Notable faculty members include, among others, …
