Editing Amherst College (section)

===Five College Consortium===
Amherst is a member of the [[Five College Consortium|Five Colleges]] consortium, which allows its students to attend classes at four other [[Pioneer Valley]] institutions. These include [[Mount Holyoke College]], [[Smith College]], [[Hampshire College]], and the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]. In addition to the 850 courses available on campus, Amherst students have an additional 5,300 classes to consider through the Consortium (without paying additional tuition) and access to 8 million library volumes. The Five Colleges are geographically close to one another and are linked by [[Pioneer Valley Transit Authority|buses that run between the campuses]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fivecolleges.edu/libraries|title=Libraries|access-date=April 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422052314/https://www.fivecolleges.edu/libraries|archive-date=April 22, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Five Colleges share resources and develop common academic programs. [[Museums10]] is a consortium of local art, history and science museums. The Five College Dance Department is one of the largest in the nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance/|title=Five College Dance Department |website=Five College Consortium |access-date=December 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125015005/https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance|archive-date=January 25, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The joint Astronomy department shares use of the [[Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory]], which contributed to work that won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astro.umass.edu/~fcrao/telescope/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617043407/http://www.astro.umass.edu/~fcrao/telescope/|archive-date=June 17, 2006|title=The Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory|access-date=January 1, 2012}}</ref>

The Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences Program offers an interdisciplinary curriculum to undergraduates in the Five Colleges.<ref>{{cite web|title=Five College Coastal & Marine Sciences Program |url=http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/marine/ |access-date=January 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111163016/http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/marine/ |archive-date=January 11, 2012 }}</ref>