Amherst College information for Students 2014

The All About Amherst College is a private foundation that was established in 1821. It has an aggregate undergrad enlistment of 1,785, its setting is provincial, and the yard size is 1,000 section. Amherst College’s positioning in the 2015 version of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 2. Its educational cost and expenses are $48,526 (2014-15).Best Amherst College, found in Amherst, Mass., is known for its thorough scholarly atmosphere. Amherst is a part of the Five Colleges consortium, which likewise incorporates Smith, Mount Hollyhock, Hampshire and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Understudies may take courses at any of these universities. Amherst offers more than 100 understudy associations; the school banned societies in 1984. Amherst cases to have the most established games program in the country, alongside the third most established football field. The Amherst Lord Jeffs take part in NCAA Division III games in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. The school is additionally piece of the informal Little .

    

An interchange student enrolling in a special topics course at Amherst College must obtain the signatures of the instructor and the department chair on an Amherst College special topics form, which is also available at the Amherst College Registrar's Office. The signed form must be submitted to the Amherst College Registrar's Office. An interchange student who wishes to take an Amherst College course on the pass/fail grading option must obtain a pass/fail application from the Amherst College Registrar's Office, secure the instructor's signature, and return the form to the Amherst College Registrar's Office by the end of the Amherst College add/drop period. No exceptions will be made to this deadline. Only one course may be taken on a pass/fail basis per semester. Please note that although the rules of the host institution must be followed in order to register the course pass/fail, the student must still abide by the home school's rules on the limit and content of courses taken on a pass/fail basis. Music lessons are open to Amherst College students only. Course information can be found on the Amherst College Course Scheduler and the Five College Course Catalog, both of which show course descriptions, meeting times, and instructors, when available.  Course locations will be posted on Course Times & Locations shortly before the beginning of the semester, and the Examination Schedule will be posted by the end of the fourth or fifth week of the semester. The Registrar's Office is located in Room 101 of Converse Hall, which is the building on the southeast corner of the intersection of Route 9 and Route 116.  The Five College bus stop is just a few feet down the street from Converse, adjacent to the parking lot.  PVTA  buses run every twenty minutes from this bus stop during the academic year. Please note that there is no on-campus parking available to Five College students during the school day.  Any Five College student who needs to use a car should park in the 2-hour metered spots along Bolt wood Avenue or in the parking garage in the center of Amherst, off of Main Street.