University of Massachusetts Amherst Dorms Ranked

Number 10

"I lived in a corner room so the room was larger compared to other rooms.
Pros: Lot of space in the room, next to Worcester dining hall, nice people, and CLEAN private bathrooms on the first and basement floor. The basement also has a kitchen, lounge, and laundry machines which is nice to hang out in.
Cons: Bathrooms are on every other floor, men's on 2nd and 4th, women's on 1st and 3rd. Walls are kinda thin. No elevator. " - 1 year ago

We collected 5 dorm reviews for Lewis Hall

Number 9

"Solid rooms, not too far from main campus. The Hill plays a factor. Sweets n more is located behind webster." - 1 year ago

We collected 1 dorm reviews for Webster

Number 8

"Super close to Frank Dining Hall and most of my classes. There’s no hill to walk up and it’s one of the only buildings in Central Residential Area to have an elevator. The whole building is also ADA compliant." - 4 years ago

We collected 2 dorm reviews for Brett Hall

Number 7

"The dorms are generally going to be z-rooms, which means you and your roommate will have slightly more privacy than traditional shared rooms. Single used bathrooms are located on the ground floor and 3 more spread across the building, lots of laundry rooms, not a lot of laundry machines per room, you have to do laundry on weekdays if you want to have a good chance to do it. bathrooms are pretty clean depending on what the people on your floor are like. if your floor is high up, you will have to walk down the stairs when there is a fire alarm, and southwest dorms are famous for having a lot of them throughout the year. the windows are big and have a great view of the outside, that is if you get lucky with the side of the room with the windows, otherwise you are living in a closed off space of the room with no access to the windows at all, unless your roommate is nice" - 11 months ago

We collected 4 dorm reviews for John Quincy Adams Hall

Number 6

"It is actually surprisingly nice to live in Brooks Hall, Central. It is really close to the Franklin Dining Hall and is at the base of the large hill (that leads to the rest of Central Residential Area and Orchard Hill). I was super nervous when moving in because the rooms were a little smaller than the average dorm at UMass but you get used to it I guess. The ground level is newly renovated and the bathrooms on the ground level feel like HOTELS. There is an elevator. The women's bathrooms are on floors 2 & 3 and the men's bathrooms are on 1 & 4. Bathrooms are relatively clean, showers are cleaned every Thursday. " - 11 months ago

We collected 1 dorm reviews for Brooks Hall

Number 5

"In the honors college, really great location. The doubles are kind of small, but there's a really nice common room on every floor with a flat-screen TV. The people that live there are hit or miss. I met some great people but on hot days the common room smelt like body odor (a bunch of comp-sci guys that didn't understand personal hygiene). Great place for freshman year." - 4 years ago

We collected 2 dorm reviews for Oak Hall

Number 4

"Speaking for doubles in Thatcher, they are much bigger than most rooms in campus. There's enough room where you can move you rearrange your furniture without feeling claustrophobic. There are walk in closets which help with the openness feel of the room. The bathrooms in my opinion are on the nicer side. Beside the size of the rooms, location is probably the biggest pro. Its located in the Northeast residential area, and sits basically next to Worchester dinning hall. Its also near a lot of classes students will be going to. The only real con would be that there is no sort of "game" table in the lounge. Most dorms have either one or a combination of ping pong/pool/foosball table, but Thatcher as none of them. " - 1 year ago

We collected 4 dorm reviews for Thatcher Hall

Number 3

"Pros: elm is the closest to most academic buildings of all the honors dorms (the entrance is at the top of the hill). Unlike maple, birch, and linden which are all U-shaped with the entrance at one end, the entrance is very central. The building and the rooms are all really new and still pretty clean. The elm classrooms are attached and easy to get to if you want to study near your room.
Cons: elm is probably the least social of all the upperclassmen honors dorms (they’re all much less social than the freshman dorms because everyone lives in suites/apartments)." - 4 years ago

We collected 2 dorm reviews for Elm Hall

Number 2

"Most of the rooms in Linden are suite-style. I lived on the bottom floor, which you have to go down one from the main entrance. The laundry was on the same floor and that was great. There's AC, everything's carpeted, and my suite had 2 doubles and one bathroom (shower and toilet in one room, 2 sinks and a huge mirror outside). Our common room was huge because it was the corner room. Little to no RA involvement because it's less communal than other dorms." - 4 years ago

We collected 1 dorm reviews for Linden Hall

Number 1

"Sycamore is really new and nice, like the rest of the honors dorms. The only noticeable downside in my opinion is that the layout/architecture is strange (the building is curved,
so some rooms on the inside of the curve are much narrower than the rooms on the outside, the upper floors have fewer rooms, and the third and fourth floors don’t have common rooms)." - 4 years ago

We collected 2 dorm reviews for Sycamore Hall