UMass

Sources

• THE profile: University of Massachusetts https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-massachusetts

  THE 2026 ranks the University of Massachusetts at position 112 and describes it as a system including Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and the medical campus; it is not MIT.

• UMass System: Education https://www.massachusetts.edu/education

  The UMass System education page describes UMass as a system with hundreds of degree programs and four undergraduate and graduate campuses.

  This source supports treating the entry as the system object, but it does not by itself define one system-wide major, minor, or course-choice rule.

• UMass Boston: Undergraduate Student Forms https://www.umb.edu/registrar/forms/undergraduate/

  The registrar page lists Change of Major/Minor/College as a WISER eForm and a Certificate/Program of Study Add Change form for matriculated undergraduate students.

  It confirms post-enrollment program-component changes at UMass Boston, but it is supporting context rather than the direct basis for double-major classification.

• UMass Amherst: Second-Major Students https://catalog.umass.edu/undergradguide/2026-2027/Page26881.html

  The UMass Amherst catalog describes second-major students: a student may earn a second major, declare it before graduation, complete it concurrently with the first major, and have it recorded on the permanent record.

  This is direct evidence for programChoice 4 for the checked UMass campus; the previous minor-only classification was too conservative.

• UMass Amherst: University Graduation Requirements https://catalog.umass.edu/undergradguide/2026-2027/Chapter6814.html

  The graduation requirements chapter states a minimum of 120 credits for most baccalaureate degrees and 128-136 credits for Engineering majors.

  It also describes General Education as roughly one third of the baccalaureate degree, with distribution requirements across Social World, Biological Science, Physical Science, Basic Math Skills, and Analytic Reasoning.

• Five Colleges: Cross-Registration https://www.fivecolleges.edu/academics/cross-registration

  The Five College Consortium describes cross-registration through which students can choose from 7,000 undergraduate courses at the five institutions, including UMass Amherst.

  The source says students request enrollment at another campus through the home campus, final grades are sent to the home registrar, and the official record remains on the home institution transcript. This supports courseChoice 4 for the checked UMass campus.

• UMass System: Quick Facts https://www.massachusetts.edu/about/quick-facts

  The official Quick Facts page reports Fall 2024 enrollment headcount: Amherst 23,920 undergraduate students, Boston 12,138, Dartmouth 5,731, Lowell 12,122, for a total of 53,911 undergraduate students. The Medical School is marked N/A in the undergraduate column.

  Because this catalog entry represents the UMass system rather than the Amherst campus alone, the system total across the four undergraduate campuses is used. The specialist degree level does not apply to the U.S. model.