University of Massachusetts-Amherst Top Questions

Only the mobbish sort mob, the rest of use try to get some sleep. But yes, there were two distirbances involving mobs... mobs and baseball and football. Basically If the patriots and or the redsoxs get into the superbowl/world series expect troube in southwest.

To an extent. If you're looking for a party it's very easy to find one. However, if you're worried about the party atmosphere, there are many ways to avoid it.

The party school is accurate. People are out til 3 am 6 nights a week. Parties aren't great from what I've seen though. Frats are dirty and gross. Best parties I've been to are just chillin in a dorm. The campus is way too big. Academics are much better than I expected though. Good luck trying to study in your room though.

UMass is a lot harder than people have made it out to be. The status of the school has beein goin gup over the past few years, and it's going to continue to do so. The Engineering, Landscape Architecture, and Business programs on campus are three of the toughest programs, with the Business school being nationally recognized as one of the best.

Although there are parties on campus, the universities academic standing is usually overlooked. The student population excels academically and many of the departments have high national standings.

sometimes, it depends on who. Some people party a lot, but some don't

Not necessarily, college is what you make of it. Yes there are a lot of parties on weekends and people start drinking on Thursday but there are lots of people that don't go out and party. If you don't want to, it isn't shoved down your throat.

for some, but you can find not-so-smart party students at just about every college nation-wide.

Not really

Yes and no. If you are going to take up something like Sociology at Southwest, then yes, expect a lot of people with hangovers and just spending half their time doing something else other than school work. The more north you go on campus, more you tend to do more school work since northern area of UMass is the science, math, and engineering side of UMass.