Students

NSM students are ambitious and high achieving. NSM undergraduates have the highest percentage of participation in Commonwealth College and the highest number of majors graduating with honors (25 percent of total honors graduates). In 2006, the college's undergraduates garnered two Goldwater Scholarships, a Fulbright Scholarship, and the coveted position of commencement speaker.

NSM undergraduates engage in independent research: the Biology Department alone has 100 undergraduate researchers in its labs each semester. In the past decade, NSM students have co-authored more than 100 published papers. NSM sponsors internship and co-op opportunities at major corporations, research centers, and governmental agencies.

NSM attracts 722 graduate students (613 of whom are working towards doctorates), and 100 postdoctoral researchers. The College awards more than one quarter of UMass Amherst's Ph.D.s