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A map of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, c. 1912. The campus extends about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Campus Center in all directions. The university owns significant amounts of land in the neighboring towns of Sunderland and Hadley. [2] The campus may be thought of as a series of concentric rings.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass 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.
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 ...
[6] [7] [8] The University of Massachusetts Amherst is the state's largest public university, with an enrollment of 28,518 students. [9] Massachusetts is also home to a number of internationally recognized universities, including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which are ranked among the top ten universities in the world.
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]
Marston Hall is an academic building on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It houses the Dean of Engineering and parts of the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The William D. Mullins Memorial Center, also known as the Mullins Center, is a 9,493-seat multi-purpose arena (10,500 for 360 concerts), located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Mullins Center is the home of UMass Minutemen men's basketball, women's basketball, and men's ice hockey. In addition ...
In the late 1880s, Massachusetts Agricultural College, a college in University of Massachusetts Amherst, decided to create a dam on one of the streams that ran through campus. The stream ran through the center of campus dividing the orchards on the eastern side and the academic buildings and fields on the west side.