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Amherst College Academic Experience



Past Performance | Probation Policy|Academic Calendar | Graduate Career Data

Past Performance

What Do We Like To Study?

Most Popular Majors

Least Popular Majors
  • women's/gender studies
  • black studies
  • computer science

Academic Calendar for 2002-03.

Academic Calendar System:

  • Other: 4-0-4 system (two semesters plus three-week, noncredit January term)

New student orientation:

  • Orientation for new students is held in August/September.

Graduate Career Data

Percentage of graduates who pursue further study:
  • 30% continue within one year.
  • 85% continue within 5 years.
List of graduate schools most often selected by our recent graduates:
  • U of Chicago, Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, Stanford University, Yale U.
Most prominent alumni/ae:
  • Charles Hamilton Houston, legal counsel, NAACP; Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the U.S.; Richard P. Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner in medicine; Daniel Bliss, founder, American University of Beirut; Henry Ward Beecher, 19th century preacher and orator.