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University of Massachusetts

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Ranked By	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) – Universities Rankings [1]	151-200	151-200	151-200	151-200	151-200	NA
QS – World University Ranking [2]	NA	251	249	259	305	270
US News & World Report – Global Universities [3]	NA	NA	119	136	136	142
US News & World Report – National University Ranking	NA	NA	70	70	64	66

About University of Massachusetts

UMass began life in 1863 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It took on its current name in 1947. It is the overarching body of the five noted campuses located in Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and UMass Medical School in Worcester. It is the only public research system in Massachusetts and one of the most highly regarded public university systems in the world. UMass campuses contribute over $6 billion in Massachusetts economic activity annually.

Its flagship campus is at Amherst, the largest institution in the system consisting of around 30,000 of UMass’ more than 73,000 students. UMass Online, which was founded in 2001, gives the system a further presence in the online education world. The consortium features more than 1,500 online courses and 150 online certificate and degree programmes from the five campuses, and there have been just under 70,000 enrolments since its inception.

The system’s faculty is extremely varied and includes Nobel Laureate, Craig Mello at UMass’ medical school, who won the 2006 award for medicine, Pulitzer Prize winning journalism academic Madeleine Blais and former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, from UMass Amherst, and novelist and National Book Award finalist Andre Dubus III, at UMass Lowell.

Marty Meehan, current president of the UMass system, is also a graduate of one of the campuses, gaining a degree in education and political science at UMass Lowell before serving as the institution’s chancellor from 2007-2015. He is the first UMass undergraduate alumnus to serve as president of the system.

Sport is a major part of the system, with the UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen, the River Hawks, Beacons and Corsairs, representing Amherst, Lowell, Boston and Dartmouth, respectively.

Rankings

UMass Amherst Again Ranked Among Top Public Universities by U.S. News & World Report, Placing at No. 26

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst again ranks among the nation’s premier public universities, placing at No. 26 among the 146 national public institutions evaluated in the 2021 Best Colleges guide published by U.S. News & World Report.

For seven years running, UMass Amherst has been ranked as a top public university. The order of the top 30 institutions in this year’s rankings changed very little from 2020, with several ties at the 23^rd and 19^th positions. UMass ranked 24^th among public institutions last year.

The university’s overall U.S. News score went up, including an improved graduation rate performance. The six-year graduation rate is 82 percent and the one-year retention rate is 91 percent.

Among all national schools, public and private, UMass is ranked No. 66 among the 312 public and private institutions rated by U.S. News in the Best National Universities category. According to the federal Department of Education, there are more than 3,400 four-year colleges and universities in the United States of which approximately 750 are public.

The U.S. News rankings are based on a variety of weighted factors: graduation rate performance, undergraduate academic reputation, faculty resources, graduation and retention rates, social mobility, indebtedness, alumni giving, financial resources, student selectivity and high school counselor ratings. All of the schools in the National Universities category offer a wide range of undergraduate majors as well as master’s and doctoral degrees while emphasizing faculty research.