Amherst College

Amherst Academy is a clandestine advanced arts academy amid in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an alone undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,792 acceptance in the abatement of 2014.Acceptance accept courses from 38 above programs[6] in an almighty accessible curriculum. Amherst is ranked as the additional best advanced arts academy in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and ranked ninth out of all U.S. colleges and universities by Forbes in its 2015 academy rankings.
Founded in 1821 as an attack to backpack Williams Academy by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest academy of academy apprenticeship in Massachusetts. Amherst was accustomed as, and remained, a men's academy until acceptable coeducational in 1975.
Amherst has historically had abutting relationships and rivalries with Williams Academy and Wesleyan University which anatomy the Little Three colleges. It is aswell a affiliate of the Five Academy Consortium.
In 1812, funds were aloft in Amherst for a accessory school, Amherst Academy; it opened December 1814.The academy was called afterwards the town, which in about-face had been called afterwards Jeffery, Lord Amherst, a adept from the Seven Years' War and after advantageous accustomed of the British armament in North America. On November 18, 1817, a activity was adopted at the Academy to accession funds for the chargeless apprenticeship of "indigent adolescent men of able talents and hopeful piety, who shall apparent a admiration to access a advanced apprenticeship with a sole appearance to the Christian ministry." This appropriate a abundant investment from benefactors.
During the fundraising for the project, it became bright that after beyond designs, it would be absurd to accession acceptable funds. This led the lath administering the activity to achieve that a new academy should be created. On August 18, 1818, the Amherst Academy lath of advisers accustomed this cessation and began architecture a new college.