University of Massachusetts-Amherst Top Questions

Lots of parties and lots of heavy drinkers.

Students at UMass only care about drinking and getting blasted/hammered/wasted/shit faced/nailed/bombed/canned/loaded/toasted/sloshed/smashed

Speaking in terms of sterotypical views about UMass as a whole, and more specifically it's students, the school is generally placed in the category of a "party school", with many simply referring to it as "The Zoo".

Because UMass is a state school, it gets a bad rap for being less academically presitgious. The students are supposedly lazy and uninterested in academics. We are also considered party animals, hence the name "Zoo Mass." In fact, there is an urban legend that each of the Five Colleges are based off of the characters from Scooby Doo. UMass is considered to be Scooby--the dumb, yet loveable mut.

It's just a party school & everyone here drinks all the time. It's a "back-up" school and people here are too dumb to get in anywhere good.

That everyone loves to party, and that U mass doesn't give a good education

Party school and alcoholics

One of the major stereotypes that surrounds UMass Amherst students is that they are all party animals. I know for a fact, as a Veterinary and Animal Science major, I was not a party animal. Another stereotype that surrounds UMass is that many of the students are a bunch of rich kids whose parents pay for everything. Again, I can attest this is not the case.

Umass Sterotypes are that this is a party school, and not well established in the buisness world. With both of these I disagree. It is true that alot of parties occur here but where do they not? There is 26,000 students here so of course there is going to be something to do every night. This school is very well established and I have got the best internships etc. being a student here. Umass Amherst students for girls are said to be a little to out their and sexually friendly, this is not the case. The diversity in this school is not scary and it opens your eyes to the outside world.

People think that we party all the time, skip class and live on a dangerous campus. I mean, look at our nickname: Zoomass.