page_title: University of Massachusetts Amherst
section_title: Commonwealth Honors College
hierarchical_section_title: University of Massachusetts Amherst / Academics / Commonwealth Honors College
caption_attribution_description: University of Massachusetts Amherst
context_page_description: The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system. UMass Amherst has an annual enrollment of approximately 1,300 faculty members and more than 30,000 students. The university offers academic degrees in 109 undergraduate, 77 master's and 48 doctoral programs. Programs are coordinated in nine schools and colleges. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium.
  The University of Massachusetts Amherst is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, UMass spent $211 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 111th in the nation.
  UMass Amherst alumni and affiliates include 4 Nobel Prize laureates, 1 National Humanities Medal winner, numerous Fulbright, Goldwater, Churchill, Truman and Gates Scholars as well as several Pulitzer Prize recipients and Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award winners. Massachusetts athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I and are collectively known as the Minutemen and Minutewomen.
context_section_description: Commonwealth Honors College is the honors college at UMass. The honors college provides students the opportunity to intensify their UMass academic curriculum. The requirements of the college are to complete an honors college writing course, a seminar called "Ideas That Changed the World," two honors gen ed courses, an honors seminar called "Topics," and for advanced scholarship honors, several upper-level honors courses, including an honors thesis or project. Membership in the honors college is not required in order to graduate the University with higher Latin honors designations, such as magna or summa cum laude. Commonwealth Honors College provides honors students an additional community of students to interact with outside of their academic department and holds many social and academic events during the school year.  In 2013, the University completed the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community (CHCRC) on campus to serve the College, including classrooms, faculty housing, an administration area, and residence areas that houses 1,500 students.
caption: The Old Chapel and W.E.B. DuBois Library at UMass Amherst.
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