Share of Amherst College Students who are Black 1976-2024

These reports show counts of students attending Amherst College at the end of the fourth week of the fall semester. Shares for 2025-2030 are predictions based on carrying a 3% Black among the entering class forward.

Graph displays a line chart of the share of Black Amherst students from 1976-2024. The actual share of Black students peaks in 2014 at 12.4 percent and falls to 9.2 percent in 2024. The predicted share of Black students in 2027 is 3 percent.
Website: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/registrar/Annual_Reports/college_enrollments. "Race not Reported" includes students with two or more races prior to 2010. "AG" includes students who self-identify as Another Gender, defined as a gender other than Male or Female.
Chart: Graph created by Jessica Wolpaw Reyes.Source: Office of Institutional Research, April 17, 2023. Downloaded by Jessica Wolpaw Reyes. September 11, 2024.Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper