Amherst College Majors
Discover the majors and programs offered by Amherst College and the types of degrees awarded.
Arts
Graduates
- Arts18
- Drama and Theatre Production5
- Film and Video Studies4
Humanities
Graduates
- African American Studies5
- Anthropology and Archaeology14
- Economics73
- English52
- European and Russian Studies2
- French Language and Literature18
- German Language and Literature3
- History45
- Legal Studies18
- Liberal Arts and Humanities11
- Music History and Literature15
- North American Studies6
- Philosophy11
- Political Science and Government34
- Psychology44
- Religious Studies3
- Russian and Eastern European Languages and Literature2
- Social Sciences2
- Sociology8
- Spanish Language and Literature17
Science, Technology, and Math
Graduates
- Architecture Studies5
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology6
- Biology39
- Chemistry17
- Computer Science26
- Environmental Studies16
- Geology and Earth Science10
- Mathematics & Statistics60
- Neuroscience and Neurobiology23
- Physics14