Amherst College
PRE-3: Institutional Characteristics

Amherst College is located in Amherst, Massachusetts in the heart of the Pioneer Valley. The college owns approximately 1,000 acres of land. Of this land, about 500 acres is actively used or managed by the college. For the purpose of this submission, we consider the campus to consist of the contiguous 500 acres of student residential, academic, athletic and service buildings and spaces. We include the campus farm (Book and Plow) and the Wildlife Sanctuary which is on the edge of main campus and provides research and curricular and co-curricular opportunities for faculty, students, and staff. We decided to exclude pieces of property owned, but not actively managed by the college (we rent out a number of fields to local farmers for use, own a few parcels of forested land away from campus that are managed by a land trust, have a private - public golf course and an inn that are managed independently of the campus operations, and have a number of rental properties for faculty that are self managed by the home owner).

These figures are based on Amherst's 2022 IPEDS report.

Full-time equivalent student enrollment is based on reporting for 12-month FTE student enrollment in 2021-2022: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reported-data/164465?year=2022&surveyNumber=14

Full-time equivalent of employees is based on reporting for FTE staff in Fall of 2022: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reported-data/164465?year=2022&surveyNumber=9