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UMass-Amherst struggles to draw in-state students - Boston.com

UMass-Amherst struggles to draw in-state students - Boston.com

UMass-Amherst struggles to draw in-state students

September 5, 2010
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AMHERST, Mass.—The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is struggling to draw students from its own state.

The number of undergraduates from Massachusetts at the University of Connecticut has risen 70 percent in the past decade while the number of Connecticut students enrolled at UMass Amherst dropped by 5.5 percent.