What is Amherst College known for?
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Amherst College is considered to be among the most prominent liberal arts universities in the US. According to Forbes the college ranked #24 in Top Colleges 2025, #21 in Private Colleges, #4 in Liberal Arts Universities, #13 in the Northeast. Amherst was the first college in the nation to establish an undergraduate neuroscience programme in 1973 and has a long history of pioneering academic initiatives. Popular courses at the college are Economics, Computer Science, Political Science, Psychology and Mathematics. The college has nobel laureates in their alumni including Edmund Phelps, Joseph Stiglitz, Harold Varmus and
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