College Hall
Originally a Congregational church, College Hall now houses the Campus Print & Mail Center, the Offices of the Treasurer and Comptroller and the Loeb Center for Career Exploration & Planning, offering a large resource library, computer stations, interview rooms, private advising rooms and a large conference space.
Media Gallery
Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning
⭐ Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning
Everyone’s career path is unique. Whether you’re a first year or a senior, the Loeb Center offer resources and advising to help you consider and shape your own way forward through internships, networking, jobs, alumni connections, or reflection on how your academic experiences, interests, skills, and values can align with a meaningful career.
Career Communities
Through career community programs, students receive expert advising from specialist career advisors, participate in skill-building workshops and other experiential activities, and gain a sophisticated understanding of the current issues impacting their fields of interest. Program directors nurture career communities that include students and alumni and help students effectively prepare for professional opportunities in their chosen fields.
Students can participate in any career community program at any time as interests develop, deepen, change, or multiply. The Loeb Center offers industry specific initiatives in: Arts and Communication, Business and Finance, Education Professions, Government and Nonprofit, Health Professions, Science and Technology, and Law.
Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program
The Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program (“Houston Program”) is designed to provide Amherst College students with substantive, meaningful summer internship opportunities in various industries across the U.S. and abroad. Internships within the Houston Program portfolio either are paid by the employer or are unpaid, but eligible for stipends from the College’s endowed internship funds.
In addition to providing students with vetted, quality internships, the Houston Program offers students 360° support throughout the entire internship cycle, including preparatory advising, professional skill development, and assistance throughout their summer experiences. Through this process, students develop valuable and transferable skills, expand their networks, and gain exposure and insight to further their career exploration and planning.
Meiklejohn Fellows Program
The goal of the Meiklejohn Fellows Program is to advance equal opportunity for success by providing robust resources and support to Amherst College students from families with low incomes, and to those who are the first in their families to attend college. All students are admitted to Amherst on the basis of a record of stellar academic and personal achievement. The college recognizes that students who have grown up facing financial hardship, and those from families without firsthand experience of college, often achieve this exceptional level of success in the face of significant societal obstacles. Amherst is also aware that students with these backgrounds typically have not benefited from the social capital and resources that advantage students from more privileged circumstances.
All Amherst students who meet family-income eligibility requirements and/or are the first in their families to attend college are named Meiklejohn Fellows in their first year at the College. Fellows retain this distinction during their entire time at Amherst. All Meiklejohn Fellows are the first in their families to attend college and/or come from low-income backgrounds.
Next-Gen Leadership Institute
Next-Gen Leadership Institute provides students with knowledge, tools, and community. The intensive four-day program was aimed at supporting and encouraging Amherst students who are the first in their families to attend college, as well as those from low-income backgrounds.