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The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, or UMass) is a research and land-grant university in Amherst, Mass. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study. It was known as the University of Massachusetts from 1947 until the creation of the UMass system. U.S. News and World Report's 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges ranked UMass Amherst as one of the top 100 universities in the nation, placing it at #96, and ranking it the joint 46th amongst Public Universities. The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked UMass Amherst as the 175th best university in the world. The MBA program is highly ranked by the Princeton Review. The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in the "agricultural, mechanical, and military arts". Accordingly, the university was initially named the...
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