University of Massachusetts-Amherst Top Questions

What the world tends to hear through the local and national media is that UMass is a school predicated more on drinking, drugs, and violence than on education. We've been in and out of the Princeton Review's top 20 drinking schools for the past few years. One TV network also said we were the most violent campus in the nation.

UMass is either not known at all (usually outside of New England), or known as a big party school. The students are stereotyped as fluzie girls and frat brothers. Most people I've met immediately were wondering how crazy we go on weekends... which gets a bit tiresome after a while.

People from South West resident quads are party animals, people from North East are Asian, and People from Central are pot heads

That we're all crazy drunk partiers and don't do anything but riot and drink.

people from Mass will fight/hate you cuz ur from New York Lot of hippies the police are more strict then the NYPD

- UMass is a big party school, and UMass students party all weekend. - UMass is a great school, and pretty diverse.

We're a party school

That everyone drinks every day. We go to class hungover. We are violent.

Umass Amherst is stereotyped as being a party school, as well as not getting enough academic respect because it is a state school.

UMASS is the number one party school... everyone is on drugs...