Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.18
Liaison Weston Dripps
Submission Date Aug. 19, 2024

STARS v3.0

Amherst College
PRE-3: Institutional Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Weston Dripps
Director of Sustainability
Sustainability
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Institution type:
Baccalaureate

Institutional control:
Private nonprofit

Narrative outlining the institutional boundary used to complete this report:

Amherst College is located in Amherst, Massachusetts in the heart of the Pioneer Valley. The college owns approximately 1,000 acres of land. Of this land, about 500 acres is actively used or managed by the college. For the purpose of this submission, we consider the campus to consist of the contiguous 500 acres of student residential, academic, athletic and service buildings and spaces. We include the campus farm (Book and Plow) and the Wildlife Sanctuary which is on the edge of main campus and provides research and curricular and co-curricular opportunities for faculty, students, and staff. We decided to exclude pieces of property owned, but not actively managed by the college (we rent out a number of fields to local farmers for use, own a few parcels of forested land away from campus that are managed by a land trust, have a private - public golf course and an inn that are managed independently of the campus operations, and have a number of rental properties for faculty that are self managed by the home owner).


Which of the following features are included within the institutional boundary?:
Farm larger than 2 hectares
Museum

Locale:
Small town

Climate zone:
5 - Cool

Gross floor area of building space:
183,997 Square meters

Full-time equivalent of employees:
1,065

Full-time equivalent student enrollment:
2,141

Percentage of students that live in campus housing:
97.10

Percentage of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:
0

Notes about the information provided for this credit:

These figures are based on Amherst's 2022 IPEDS report.

Full-time equivalent student enrollment is based on reporting for 12-month FTE student enrollment in 2021-2022: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reported-data/164465?year=2022&surveyNumber=14

Full-time equivalent of employees is based on reporting for FTE staff in Fall of 2022: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reported-data/164465?year=2022&surveyNumber=9


Additional documentation for this credit:
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