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Fast Facts
Student Body
- Enrollment: 1,849 students from 48 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and 54 countries
- Demographics: 50% women, 50% men; 98% live on campus
- U.S. students who self-identify as students of color: 45%
- International students in the student body: 9%
- Find detailed statistics about Amherst’s student body and more in our Common Data Sets.
Academics
- Student/faculty ratio: 8:1
- Fulltime instructional faculty: 209
- Average class size: 19
- Classes with fewer than 30 students: 84%
- Fields of study: 40 majors in the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences
- Number of courses at Amherst: More than 850, with more than 6,000 available through the Five College Consortium
- Amherst students who study abroad: 43%
- Students who graduate within six years: 93%
Admission Numbers, Class of 2021
- Admission rate, all applicants: 13%
- Admitted students who enrolled: 39%
- Pell Grant eligible: 20%
- First-generation students: 11%
- Finished in the top 10% of their secondary school class: 83%
Student Life
- Student organizations: 150
- Number of NCAA titles won: 76 Division III individual titles and 11 team championships (and our Athletics program is the oldest in the country)
- Alumni who self-report that they have attended graduate or professional school: 80%
- Size of campus: 1,000 acres, including a Wildlife Sanctuary of about 500 acres
- First-year retention rate: 96%
Finances
- Endowment: $2.03 billion, or $1.13 million per student
- Average financial aid package in 2016-17: $51,775 (Amherst follows a no-loan policy for all financial aid recipients and is need-blind for both domestic and international students)
- Students receiving financial aid: 55%
