English at Amherst College

If you plan to study english, take a look at what Amherst College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 1,745 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in English section at the bottom of this page.

Amherst English Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in English Language

Amherst English Rankings

The english language major at Amherst is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for English. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

English Language Student Demographics at Amherst

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the english language majors at Amherst College.

Amherst English Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 44% of english language bachelor's degrees went to men and 56% went to women. The typical english language bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at Amherst since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% more racial-ethnic minorities in its english language bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's in english language.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	11
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Careers That English Language Grads May Go Into

A degree in english language can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Amherst College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
High School Teachers	26,420	$80,020
English Language and Literature Professors	2,780	$80,450

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.