Amherst College Exhibits for Asian Focus Areas

Last update: 12/7/2018

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Amherst College  Exhibit 1. Asian American and White Graduates by IPEDS Degree Areas

Amherst College Exhibit 2. Asian Focus Areas Identified by Overall Asian-to-White Ratio

Amherst College  Exhibit 3A. Graduates -- All Races

• A2W, the right-most column, displays the ratio of the number of students in the Asian column to the number in the White column for each category. 
• The last four rows of the table show the total enrollments, total number of students in Asian Focus areas, percentage of total enrollments, the total number in Asian Focus Areas, and the percentage of enrollments in Asian Focus Areas, respectively.

Amherst College Graduates, Class of 2016

DegreeAreas	All	White	Asian	Hispanic	Black	A2W
PoliticalScience	27	13	0	1	6	0.00
PhilosophyReligiousStudies	7	4	0	0	2	0.00
History	29	18	1	2	3	0.06
VisualPerformingArts	24	10	1	7	3	0.10
LegalProfessionsStudies	13	5	1	1	3	0.20
PhysicalSciences	22	9	2	2	0	0.22
Psychology	31	13	3	3	6	0.23
ComputerInformationSciences	22	10	3	2	1	0.30
AFA-MathematicsStatistics	33	16	5	3	2	0.31
AFA-AreaEthnicCulturalGenderGroup	37	13	4	7	9	0.31
AFA-Economics	63	30	10	4	2	0.33
AFA-Architecture	5	3	1	0	0	0.33
AFA-EnglishLanguageLiterature	39	17	7	8	3	0.41
AFA-NaturalResourcesConservation	14	6	3	3	0	0.50
AFA-MultiInterdisciplinaryStudies	4	2	1	1	0	0.50
AFA-ForeignLanguagesLiteraturesLinguistics	10	4	2	1	1	0.50
AFA-BiologicalBiomedicalSciences	38	15	10	2	4	0.67
AFA-SocialSciencesWithoutEconPoli	14	1	2	3	3	2.00
...SumClassOf2016...	432	189	56	50	48	0.30
...PercentClassOf2016...	100	44	13	12	11	0.30
...SumAsianFocusAreas...	257	107	45	32	24	0.42
...PercentAsianFocus...	59	57	80	64	50	1.40

Amherst College  Exhibit 3B. Graduates -- Other Components

Abbreviated column headings have the usual meanings:

• The "Others" category includes AmericanIndians/AlaskaNatives and NativeHawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders
• "TwoOrMore" = multiracial students 
• "Unknown" = students who did not specify any racial group
• "NonResAlien" = non-resident aliens, i.e., foreign students.

Amherst College Graduates, Class of 2016

DegreeAreas	All	Others	TwoOrMore	Unknown	NonResAlien
PoliticalScience	27	0	1	2	4
PhilosophyReligiousStudies	7	0	0	0	1
History	29	0	1	3	1
VisualPerformingArts	24	1	1	1	0
LegalProfessionsStudies	13	0	1	1	1
PhysicalSciences	22	0	2	2	5
Psychology	31	0	1	5	0
ComputerInformationSciences	22	0	3	1	2
AFA-MathematicsStatistics	33	0	1	3	3
AFA-AreaEthnicCulturalGenderGroup	37	0	0	0	4
AFA-Economics	63	0	2	5	10
AFA-Architecture	5	1	0	0	0
AFA-EnglishLanguageLiterature	39	0	2	1	1
AFA-NaturalResourcesConservation	14	0	2	0	0
AFA-MultiInterdisciplinaryStudies	4	0	0	0	0
AFA-ForeignLanguagesLiteraturesLinguistics	10	0	1	0	1
AFA-BiologicalBiomedicalSciences	38	0	2	1	4
AFA-SocialSciencesWithoutEconPoli	14	0	1	2	2
...SumClassOf2016...	432	2	21	27	39
...PercentClassOf2016...	100	0	5	6	9
...SumAsianFocusAreas...	257	1	11	12	25
...PercentAsianFocus...	59	50	52	44	64