The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, and was founded in 1863 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium, along with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley.
Panoramic view of campus, 1916; in the foreground at the left is the Apiary Laboratory, Fernald Hall, the Old Chapel, and Clark Hall, in the distance to the right can be seen French Hall and Stockbridge Hall
The W. E. B. Du Bois Library is the world's third tallest library and the tallest university library.
Arnold House, part of Northeast Residential Area
The Southwest residential area as seen from the athletic fields.
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The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses, a satellite campus in Springfield and also 25 campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts Global.
UMass Amherst looking southeast from the air (2006)
The UMass Boston campus, viewed from Squantum Point Park in Quincy
The Claire T. Carney Library
Cumnock Hall, on North Campus