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Makers, artists, creators, disruptors, listeners, searchers, collaborators, and activists pursue great, color-drenched futures: We are here for you. We have been here for 145 years, pioneering, sustaining, refining a world-class education in art and design and sending skilled and experienced scholar-artists into the world as professionals, ready to shake-up and shine on local and global stages. Massachusetts College of Art and Design welcomes applications for admission from students with a minimum of a high school diploma who are passionate about the visual and media arts.MassArt offers a bachelor of fine arts degrees in 18 disciplines spanning the fine arts, design, art education, art history, and graduate degrees in the fine arts, design innovation, dynamic media, architecture, and art education. Certificates are available in fashion, graphic, furniture, and industrial design. Our graduates are near and far. They are innovators changing the way we interact with the world, art educators working with students worldwide. Around the corner, industrial designers, medical device pioneers, entrepreneurs, contestants on Project Runway, famed photographers, renowned painters, Academy Award-winning set designers and savvy media pioneers. MassArt is a community of change-makers and forward thinkers. We invite you to be part of the process and part of the future. We are redesigning the world, but we cannot do it alone. We want you to join us.MassArt is headed for the future, but we also have an illustrious past. In 1873, the Massachusetts Normal School opened its doors in response to the Massachusetts Drawing Act, a progressive 1870 mandate requiring all cities in the Commonwealth of over 10,000 residents to include drawing in their public school curricula ("normal schools" were the precursors to teachers' colleges). The Industrial Revolution changed the way the world functioned, and mid-19th Century Bostonians believed that industry was not the only way to build a stronger nation. Art, they felt confident, was also essential to growing a powerful country, a vital economy, and improving and advancing citizens' well-being. London and Paris - thriving cities with grand museums and galleries - were compelling examples. At MassArt, we have always believed that art is an igniting force for positive change. We have offered a bright gate where access to world-class art education is not defined by economics or privilege from our earliest days. We are committed to providing an education and the promise of a future based on talent, ambition, and drive. As the first publicly supported freestanding visual arts college in the US, we take great pride in our ability to nurture and support students with extraordinary creative promise, regardless of limitations in college prep opportunities or financial status. Our reach is excellent. Through dynamic community partnerships in and around Boston, students gain real-world experience, and we bring art and design into the public sphere for multi-generational audiences. We bring art and design into spaces where access is otherwise limited, from designing the exterior wrap for mobile medical vans to delivering innovative workshops at schools and libraries, curating neighborhood art exhibitions, and beautifying city fences. At MassArt, we have held close to our original mission of providing an inclusive, academically, excellent, rigorous curriculum that turns students into practicing professionals in their chosen fields. We seek individuals who are both independent and collaborative, and who recognize the importance of both. MassArt is grounded in history, creativity, and foresight. Every era requires vision as part of its progress, and MassArt was founded on a vision of the future that included all citizens in its gaze. Started as a revolutionary idea, MassArt continues to look toward extraordinary and cutting-edge - and who will lead the way - in art, design, and education. Our students engage deeply with the world outside their studios and classrooms, and our community is broad, influential, and encompassing. MassArt is the Commonwealth's art and design school, a place with broad reach. The most challenging, most important, and most rewarding work of our students, staff, and affiliates, is to keep our eyes open and continue expanding our vision. Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a public, independent college of art and design. The College's academic and co-curricular programs prepare students from diverse backgrounds to participate in the creative economy as artists, designers, and educators and to engage in their society's well-being. As a national leader in visual art and design education, the College influences contemporary culture through its students, alumni, faculty, and staff's creative accomplishments. MassArt's undergraduate curriculum offers students a strong foundation in traditional methods and the tools to push boundaries and develop their voice through contemporary practice. MassArt's graduate programs offer artists and designers the opportunity to master their craft and advance their careers through highly specialized course work, individual attention with world-class faculty, and state-of-the-art facilities such as studio and exhibition space. MassArt faculty and instructors are working artists, designers, and educators who apply their real-world experience and their expertise to the classroom to help students hone their skills and develop their artistic practice. International artists visit MassArt to lecture, critique, and exhibit their artwork in the Bakalar & Paine Galleries. The cultural education provided by these artists supplements the diverse academic and artistic offerings at the College. MassArt's Professional and Continuing Education program offers more than 100 classes and workshops in various art and design disciplines each semester to students of all ages. View full university

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS University) is the oldest institution of higher education in the entire city of Boston and the second-oldest university of pharmacy in the United States. Since the University's founding in 1823, MCPHS has been on the cutting edge of healthcare education innovation. MCPHS University prepares students for successful healthcare careers through excellence in teaching, scholarship, research, professional service, and community engagement. MCPHS has graduated countless leaders in the healthcare industry and is committed to shaping healthcare one generation at a time. We see our students as the future of an industry we are wholly committed to, and our mission is to arm them with the knowledge and skills that will lead to success for them and better science for all. View full university

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) is the Commonwealth's public liberal arts college and a Massachusetts state university system. MCLA promotes excellence in learning and teaching, innovative scholarship, intellectual creativity, public service, applied knowledge, and active and responsible citizenship. MCLA prepares its graduates to be practical problem solvers and engaged, resilient global citizens. Our mission guides the strategic goals that advance MCLA: Excellence in Teaching and Learning Supportive and Inclusive Community Responsive and Intentional Stewardship and Public Purpose and Engagement. These goals reflect the interplay of the shared values that shape our commitment to students, faculty, staff, and our community. We are a public liberal arts college in Massachusetts. In every way possible, the experience at MCLA is designed to elevate you as an individual, a leader, and a communicator, fully empowered to make your impression on the world. Located in the Berkshires, our area is known for its mountain ranges, hiking trails, and panoramic views. Our hometown of North Adams is brimming with young, creative energy, and the regional economy is booming as a result. Our classes are taught by educators who care deeply about teaching and about seeing their students thrive on every level personally, academically, and professionally. We engage in the most relevant conversations of our time by bringing the most celebrated thinkers and speakers to campus through nationally known public lectures hosted by MCLA. MCLA graduates excel in their careers, many advancing rapidly to earn competitive salaries in exciting fields, stemming in part from the professional opportunities available to them, such as internships in significant cities, leadership programs that span the globe, and undergraduate research projects. Nearly 93% of our graduates land jobs or get accepted into some of the finest grad schools in the country. View full university

From our new campus in Greater Boston, The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology educates students for careers that meet the growing demand for access to quality, culturally competent psychological services for individuals, families, communities & organizations both locally & around the globe. We offer graduate programs attentive to vulnerable populations' needs, including children of adversity and the needs of specific populations such as Latinos and veterans and organizations and leaders at the forefront of creating social change. Our training's foundation provides growing professionals with hands-on experience at more than 350 field placement sites, preparing them to address the complex problems in an increasingly diverse world. View full university

Massachusetts School of Law’s mission is to provide an academically rigorous affordable legal education emphasizing ethics, advocacy, leadership, and professional skills. MSLAW provides an accessible and affordable legal education to tomorrow’s leaders in law, business, and technology who seek to contribute to their communities as advocates, lawyers, and leaders. Lawyers have substantial influence in our society, and MSLAW prepares its graduates to use that power to help their clients obtain the societal advancement that a law degree has traditionally provided. To accomplish its mission, Massachusetts School of Law brings together a diverse group of scholars, judges, expert practitioners, and other professionals to provide individuals from all backgrounds a rigorous, professionally advantageous, affordable legal education to improve their lives and better serve their communities. The Massachusetts School of Law does not discriminate against any person based on race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, disability, source of income, or status as a Vietnam-era or disabled veteran admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities. You should attend the Massachusetts School of Law (MSLAW) because you will enjoy the experience. There are several reasons why MSLAW students enjoy their time here. MSLAW promotes an atmosphere of support, openness, and friendliness. Our culture is one of support with all Faculty being invested in our students so that no one feels alone. Our diverse student body augments that culture and students genuinely enjoy their time here. Whether it is in class, forming tight-knit friendships through study groups or student activities, or building relationships with Professors that continue after graduation, our students genuinely enjoy their time here. The purpose of financial aid at MSLAW is to help students finance their education through payment plans and unsubsidized federal loans. At MSLAW, you may earn up to six credit hours towards your Juris Doctor working in an unpaid internship position. You must have completed at least 45 credit hours and have not been on academic probation for at least two semesters to participate in this program. All internships must be approved by Associate Dean Coyne or Assistant Dean Sullivan before beginning the internship. View full university

MIT's mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the twenty-first century. We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion for working wisely, creatively, and virtually for humankind's betterment. Since its incorporation in 1861, MIT has created a place for students, faculty members, researchers, and scientists to advance our understanding of the world through world-class scholarship and leadership that continue to serve the nation and the world. Since its incorporation in 1861, MIT has upheld its abiding commitment to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and related areas of scholarship. Teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be the Institute's primary purpose as it serves the nation and the world. MIT maintains a commitment to serving both the local community and the world through education and technology. From the broad range of community services that draw support from students, faculty, and staff, to the far-reaching educational activities of OpenCourseWare, MITx, and edX, MIT continues to make the wonders of technology discovery relevant to people near and far. The soul of MIT is research. For more than 150 years, the Institute has brought together teaching, engineering, and scientific studies to produce a series of advancements. Many of these advancements are world-changing and occupy all corners of science and technology, from advanced engineering to the study of genetics and the arts. MIT has created a culture of inclusion that supports and learns from the diverse skills and perspectives in its community. The Institute supports student growth by providing opportunities to bond, expand, and grow and step outside a given worldview to appreciate diverse life experiences. Engagement in those perspectives leads to a greater understanding of the world and our place in it. A new program called The Standard is working to advance the academic, personal, and professional success of men of color at MIT. Students join in their first year and are paired with upper-level students who serve as peer mentors. Also, members attend outings, guest lectures, and workshops on various topics, including professional development, life skills, self-care, and financial literacy. In Designing the First Year at MIT, a new class offered this spring; students were tasked with solving the ultimate problem set: making the first year at MIT better. Working in teams, students tackled pain points they identified in academics, activities, and advising and proposed innovative ways to improve those areas. Several ideas from the class are already being considered for implementation. MIT has a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion, such as its dedicated efforts to support, mentor, and recruit the leaders of tomorrow. Through the Institute Community and Equity Office (ICEO), MIT has championed efforts to enhance the student experience. The mission of the ICEO is to advance a respectful and caring community that embraces diversity and empowers everyone to learn and do their best at MIT. In this mission's spirit, the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) has taken a proactive lead in creating and fostering diversity initiative programs. Through our recruiting efforts, the OGE can reach out and engage with prospective graduate students from across the United States, which then allows us to highlight all that MIT has to offer. We have also crafted dedicated summer research programs and open house visits to bring talented individuals to the MIT campus. The MSRP mission seeks to promote the value of graduate education, to improve the research enterprise through increased diversity, and to prepare and recruit the best and brightest students for graduate education at MIT. This nine-week, fully funded summer program brings together a talented pool of underrepresented minorities and underserved students to engage in on-campus research led by dedicated MIT faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. It is an invaluable experience for any student considering further graduate education. The CONVERGE preview weekend provides an opportunity for prospective applicants to learn about the graduate admissions process and to hear about many of the programs MIT has to offer. The preview weekend is targeted toward underrepresented minorities interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in the future. Graduate students at MIT are entering a tight housing market, looking for accommodations on campus or in the surrounding Boston-Cambridge area. Many new students, single and married, find apartments off-campus, both nearby and in the outer suburbs, where there are greater variety and availability. MIT is committed to working with students to create a healthy and vibrant campus community. One aspect of this is confronting the critical topics of sexual assault, harassment, and relationship violence. As a part of this ongoing effort, MIT has partnered with EverFi to offer Haven Plus: an online, research-based program that provides a learning experience regarding critical prevention skills and strategies. View full university

Massachusetts School of Law’s mission is to provide an academically rigorous affordable legal education emphasizing ethics, advocacy, leadership, and professional skills. MSLAW provides an accessible and affordable legal education to tomorrow’s leaders in law, business, and technology who seek to contribute to their communities as advocates, lawyers, and leaders. Lawyers have substantial influence in our society and MSLAW prepares its graduates to use that power to help their clients and obtain the societal advancement that a law degree has traditionally provided. To accomplish its mission, Massachusetts School of Law brings together a diverse group of scholars, judges, expert practitioners and other professionals to provide individuals from all backgrounds a rigorous, professionally advantageous, affordable legal education so that they can improve their lives and better serve their communities. The Massachusetts School of Law does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, disability, source of income, or status as a Vietnam-era or disabled veteran admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities. You should attend the Massachusetts School of Law (MSLAW) because you will enjoy the experience. There are a number of reasons why MSLAW students enjoy their time here. MSLAW promotes an atmosphere of support, openness and friendliness. Our culture is one of support with all Faculty being invested in our students so that no one feels alone. Our diverse student body augments that culture and students truly enjoy their time here. Whether it is being in class, forming tight-nit friendships through study groups or student activities, or building relationships with Professors that continue after graduation, our students truly enjoy their time here. The purpose of financial aid at MSLAW is to help students finance their education through payment plans and unsubsidized federal loans. At MSLAW, you may earn up to six credit hours towards your Juris Doctor working in an unpaid internship position. You must have completed at least 45 credit hours and not have been on academic probation for at least two semesters to participate in this program. All internships must be approved by Associate Dean Coyne or Assistant Dean Sullivan prior to beginning the internship. View full university

At Emmanuel, everything we do - every decision, every initiative, every investment - is animated by the joyful belief that "education is the greatest work on earth." We celebrate this conviction whenever we see students' lives transformed and witness our graduates, advancing a more just and peaceful world. Emmanuel stands in the heart of Boston-at the intersection of the 2,000-year-old Catholic intellectual tradition and tomorrow's top careers. Here faculty engage students in a rigorous liberal arts and sciences curriculum, challenging them to think imaginatively and critically and express themselves with power and precision; throughout our thriving global city, students intern with leading organizations in business, finance, media, science, and the law. Our students also collaborate with faculty on original scholarship and research, gaining exceptional graduate school preparation and a wide range of professions. Through more than 90 co-curricular activities and organizations, students grow as scholars, artists, volunteers, and athletes while forming relationships that last a lifetime. To educate students in a dynamic learning community rooted in the liberal arts and sciences and shaped by strong ethical values, a commitment to social justice and service, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the global mission of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Emmanuel will be widely esteemed as the CollegeCollege in the heart of Boston that leads the nation in combining an extraordinary liberal arts and sciences education in the Catholic intellectual tradition with a commitment to healthy relationships, ethical values, and service to others. Students will choose Emmanuel to develop in every respect while preparing for lives of leadership, professional achievement, global engagement, and profound purpose. Emmanuel College—a Catholic, coeducational, residential, liberal arts and sciences college in Boston—has been educating critical thinkers, ethical decision-makers, and community leaders since 1919. Founded in 1919 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as the first Catholic CollegeCollege for women in New England, Emmanuel today is a coeducational, residential college with a 17-acre campus in the heart of Boston's educational, scientific, cultural, and medical communities. Emmanuel enrolls more than 2,500 students, including 1,800 traditional undergraduate students from 28 states and territories and 52 countries. At Emmanuel College, excellence in the liberal arts and sciences intersects with experiential learning opportunities, including student-faculty collaboration on research and scholarship internships with various corporations, institutions, and nonprofits service-learning study abroad programs and scores of co-curricular activities that promote engagement and leadership. The CollegeCollege offers more than 50 majors, minors, and concentrations in the liberal arts and sciences and graduate programs in education, nursing, and management. Emmanuel College is a values-based community that fosters a free exchange of ideas. All questions—including those touching on faith, ethics, and values—are discussed openly and vibrantly. A strong sense of community allows students to connect easily with each other and faculty mentors, forming enduring relationships that enhance learning. An Emmanuel College education challenges students to become critical thinkers, ethical decision-makers, and engaged members of the local community and global society. Emmanuel is a place where students drive the research behind scientific breakthroughs. Captain championship teams alongside fellow athletes who become everlasting friends. Gain valuable connections to companies and organizations that help them develop real-world skills and a strong resume. There are no halfway measures for happiness: it drives from giving your all to the passions and pursuits that move you. You are ready to put your all into something bold and ambitious. There is simply no other place like Emmanuel College. If you believe that education opens doors, empowers, and transforms, if you insist, as we do, that the world of ideas demands diversity… then this is your place. We are a coed, residential Catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2500 undergraduate and graduate students representing 35 countries and 33 states and territories. We sit on 17 acres amid the excitement, resources, and culture of Boston. Our neighbors are the world-class surgeons of the Longwood Medical Area, the Monets and Gauguins of the Museum of Fine Arts… and 250,000 college students at institutions across the city. Emmanuel College is home to students from 48 countries and welcomes applicants from around the globe. At Emmanuel, international students include non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents. While need-based aid is not available to international students, several merit scholarships are awarded each year. We invite transfer students from community colleges and four-year institutions to apply for admission for the fall or spring semester. Students applying for the fall semester should have all application materials postmarked or submitted electronically no later than April 1. Students applying for the spring semester must have all materials postmarked by December 1. Emmanuel is a residential, coed, Catholic liberal arts and sciences college located in the heart of Boston's Fenway neighborhood, alongside the Longwood Academic and Medical Area's world-renowned institutions. In 1919, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, an international Catholic religious congregation, opened Emmanuel College as the first Catholic college for women in New England. Deeply committed to education, the Sisters founded the CollegeCollege to provide women with educational opportunities they might not have had otherwise. For more than 80 years, Emmanuel served proudly as a Catholic liberal arts and sciences college for women and enjoyed a reputation for academic rigor and a commitment to social justice. In 2001, the CollegeCollege officially became a coeducational institution, expanding its educational mission to include young men in its undergraduate arts and sciences program. As the CollegeCollege prepares to celebrate its Centennial is 2019, it does so as a thriving, future-focused institution, still deeply committed to its founding tenets. View full university

Welcome to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), the Commonwealth's first and only public, academic health sciences center. Our mission is to advance the health and well-being of the people of the Commonwealth and the world through pioneering education, research, and health care delivery with clinical partner UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest health care provider in Central Massachusetts. As the Commonwealth's only public medical school, we take seriously our mission to serve the people of Massachusetts. We welcome the responsibilities we face in caring for their needs. We meet these challenges by providing clinical staff for public and private institutions, emphasizing training in the primary care specialties, and encouraging graduates to practice in the state's underserved areas. The University of Massachusetts Medical School's (UMMS) educational mission stems from its founding in 1962 to provide affordable, high-quality medical education to qualified residents of the Commonwealth. With that goal as its cornerstone, UMMS' educational mission has expanded to include residency and fellowship training, graduate education in nursing and the biomedical sciences, training in allied health professions, and continuing education for health care practitioners. Our students are highly motivated, intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate. They volunteer to work with community organizations and are thoroughly imbued with the school's commitment to public service. Our faculty have developed a curriculum designed to stimulate and support students in the acquisition of advanced knowledge and skills while instilling compassionate attitudes and values so that they may best serve their patients. In the area of research, UMMS has achieved world-class status. Research is conducted in the laboratory, ambulatory clinic, and at the bedside, contributing significantly to medical science and the state's economy and enhancing our ability to attract outstanding faculty members for all three schools. Extramural research funding totals more than $240 million. As our researchers continue to make discoveries and explore new avenues of inquiry, we continue to grow with exceptional principal investigators conducting clinical and basic research in such areas as cancer, molecular genetics, neurobiology, chemical biology, and immunology. In all that we do, we place the highest priority on respect for the dignity and diversity of the Medical School community members - patients, students, faculty, employees, and volunteers. We are committed to supporting their professional, intellectual, and emotional growth so they may have the opportunity to fulfill their potential and achieve their goals. In the spirit of serving the public, we dedicate these pages to those who want to learn more about our innovative School of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Nursing, and our centers, institutes, and programs of national distinction. Today, UMMS is proud to be at the forefront of the Commonwealth's life sciences initiative, having received funding in 2007 and 2008 to establish an Advanced Therapeutics Cluster (ATC) on campus. The ATC will bring together an interdisciplinary group of research faculty and physician-scientists in three interconnected research clusters—stem cell biology, RNA biology, and gene therapy to be housed in the Albert Sherman Center. RNA studies at UMMS are conducted by world leaders to direct gene therapy initiatives; UMMS recruited an internationally recognized researcher in 2008. And in the realm of stem cell biology, the institution launched the Stem Cell Bank and Stem Cell Registry, two separate but complementary infrastructure programs that are fundamental to the advancement of today's cutting-edge biomedical research. The Commonwealth established a state-supported public medical school for Massachusetts in July of 1962. The founding dean, Lamar Soutter, was appointed in December of 1963 and began executing a vision for an extraordinary medical school. "I think that if you're starting a medical school from scratch," he said at the time, "you can say all right, let us get this science of medicine very firmly rooted in the students' minds—but then let's take them back to the bedside and make them much better practitioners and much more interested in taking care of human beings even though they are making full use of laboratory procedures and scientific advances." A period of expansion began in 1990 with the appointment of Aaron Lazare as dean and, subsequently, chancellor, who would go on to become one of the longest-serving leaders of a medical school in the US by the time he stepped down in 2007. The Nobel Prize drew attention and support to UMMS throughout the Commonwealth. The University of Massachusetts created a Life Sciences Task Force that proposed a series of strategic investments in biomedical sciences education, research, and infrastructure across the five campuses. Many of these recommendations were mirrored in the Commonwealth's own Life Sciences Initiative, a ten-year, billion-dollar investment plan. Two significant facilities investments on the UMMS campus have laid the groundwork for the next generation of life sciences education and research: the 278,000 square-foot Ambulatory Care Center, home to Centers of Excellence in Diabetes, Cardiovascular Medicine, Orthopedics and Cancer, which opened in 2010 and the 500,000 square foot Albert Sherman Center, which opened in 2013 and houses state of the art facilities for medical education, including homes for the learning communities the standardized patient program dedicated seminar and conference space in addition to six floors of wet and dry laboratory space for new research initiatives in population health, RNA biology, gene therapy, and neurodegenerative disease. View full university

UMass Lowell is a national research university committed to preparing students for work in the real world— solving real problems and helping real people— by providing an affordable, high-quality education. Located on a high-energy campus in the heart of a global community, the university offers more than 17,000 students bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in six colleges. Our students are more successful than ever thanks to accredited programs, a focus on hands-on learning, and personal attention from accomplished faculty and dedicated staff. Whether you are pursuing a career path or still searching for one, UMass Lowell is the ideal place to discover and achieve your purpose. Our graduates are wanted and trusted by employers and graduate schools alike. With an education from UMass Lowell, you will be ready to take on the world. The University of Massachusetts Lowell is a nationally-ranked public research university committed to excellence in teaching, research, and community engagement. We strive to prepare students to succeed in college and to become lifelong learners and informed citizens in a global environment. UMass Lowell offers affordable, experience-based undergraduate and graduate academic programs taught by internationally recognized faculty who research to expand the horizons of knowledge and sustainable practices. The programs span and interconnect the business, education, engineering, fine arts, health, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The university continues to build on its founding tradition of innovation, entrepreneurship, and partnerships with industry and the community to address the region and the world's challenges. For more than a century, UMass Lowell has been preparing students to work in the real world, solve real problems, and help real people. The university began as the Lowell Normal School, a teaching college founded in 1894, and the Lowell Textile School, founded in 1895 to train technicians and managers for the textile industry. Over the next 75 years, both institutions extended their offerings to meet the region's growing needs. Lowell State and Lowell Tech merged in 1975 to form the University of Lowell as they were then known. The campus became part of the University of Massachusetts system in 1991. UMass Lowell graduates earn the highest mid-career salaries of alumni from any public university in New England. Whether you are an undergraduate or Ph.D., learning through experience means that you'll be working alongside world-renowned faculty, alumni, and professionals, starting the day you step on campus. With research that's exploratory and practical, UMass Lowell faculty and students translate discoveries into robust solutions. As we continue to build new cutting-edge research facilities such as the Fabric Discovery Center, our capacity to conduct groundbreaking research grows and attracts leaders worldwide. Working across disciplines, faculty partner with industries, startups, and communities, to innovate and build solutions that make a difference in people's lives. UMass Lowell's research, engagement, and seed centers differ from one another in focus and scope. However, each contributes in unique ways to expanding knowledge, generating discoveries, and positively impacting society. University Centers encourage interdisciplinary research collaborations on projects that advance technology innovations and promote health and wellbeing. UMass Lowell Engagement Centers make a significant impact on the community or world either through activities or education. Seed Centers are areas that have shown particular growth and funding opportunities. At UMass Lowell, we engage students early in their college career to participate in meaningful, practical experiences that enrich learning to prepare students for future work, life, and world experiences. Research co-operative education is a vital component of a student's experience. It offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students the chance to work side-by-side with leading research professors and professionals in all research areas. And the many benefits of co-op include facilitating the faculty-student interaction that is uniquely and richly supported at UMass Lowell, helping students learn new skills from hands-on experience that build on the knowledge acquired in the classroom and providing an awareness of what takes place in a research lab that is working towards a product. For our undergraduate juniors and seniors who usually round out their undergraduate experience with some of these types of opportunities, co-op helps students to explore their professional and higher education goals while making a valuable contribution to the workplace and community. The birthplace of Jack Kerouac and the Industrial Revolution, Lowell's history, echoes all around you. Former mill buildings and cobblestone streets now add charm to a bustling downtown, steps away from the UMass Lowell campus, which boasts a thriving arts scene, a population rich in cultural diversity, and a flair for festivals. Discover restaurants representing more than a dozen different cultures. Spend a day exploring art galleries or take in a show. Stroll along the Merrimack River, which winds through the city center, and enjoy a picnic on the esplanade. Hike, bike, or cross-country ski more than 1,000 acres of state forest nearby. Lowell's location at the intersections of Routes 495, 93, and 3 extends your education beyond the classroom, with easy access to hands-on learning opportunities such as co-ops and internships. And with Route 128 nearby and Boston only a 40-minute commuter rail ride away, you are right where the jobs are once you graduate. View full university

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth distinguishes itself as a vibrant public university actively engaged in personalized teaching and innovative research and acting as an intellectual catalyst for regional and global economic, social, and cultural development. Within a climate that is inclusive, open, and diverse, UMass Dartmouth will be the university of choice for students seeking high-quality liberal arts and science programs as well as professional academic programs that build a foundation for civic responsibility, individual skills, and professional success. UMass Dartmouth will distinguish itself by providing a personalized academic environment where faculty and graduate students' scholarly research and creative activities are interwoven with the undergraduate experience. UMass Dartmouth aspires to create additional Masters and Doctoral programs, with commensurate support, in addition to enhanced technological capabilities for the delivery of our educational and outreach programs. Your UMass Dartmouth education is an investment in your future. We can help you finance your education through various programs—from grants and scholarships to loans and student employment. With dozens of major subject areas leading to 51 bachelor's, 25 master's, and 12 doctoral programs (including the Juris Doctor), UMass Dartmouth offers a vast and diverse array of world-class educational opportunities within reach for full and part-time students. Programs offered across the region and online are designed to meet students' needs and aspirations while engaging our students and faculty in the social and economic development of the community. You'll find dedicated professors who are committed to the transformative educational experience. UMass Dartmouth is a highly regarded research university with professors who love to teach. You will meet them in the classroom sharing their expertise and offering excellent undergraduate and graduate research opportunities. Research, scholarship, and innovation are at the core of UMass Dartmouth's mission. We are a Doctoral University – Higher Research Activity (R2) designated by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Develop new perspectives on academic subjects and real-world issues. When you study abroad, the world becomes your classroom every day presents a new learning opportunity to see things in a new way. Employers see students who have studied abroad as self-motivated, independent, willing to take on challenges, and able to cope with various problems and situations. Globalization is changing the way the world works, and employers are increasingly looking for workers who have cross-cultural competence. View full university

The University of Massachusetts Boston is nationally recognized as a model of excellence for urban public universities. With easy access to downtown Boston, the scenic waterfront campus is located next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Presidential Museum, the Commonwealth Museum and Massachusetts State Archives, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. UMass Boston, part of the UMass system, combines a small-college experience with the vast resources of a major research university. With a 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio, students easily interact with professors because most teaching occurs in small class sizes. Ninety-three percent of full-time faculty hold the highest degree in their fields. UMass Boston's academic excellence is reflected by a student body of 16,415 undergraduate and graduate students. In fall 2017, the university's ten colleges and schools offered 83 undergraduate programs (bachelor's degrees, undergraduate certificates, post-baccalaureate certificates) and 130 graduate programs (master's degrees, doctoral degrees, graduate CAGS, and post-masters certificates). The Honors College serves 763 students who thrive on intellectual challenges. Enriched courses probe more deeply into theory or venture further into the application. UMass Boston's diverse student body provides a global context for student learning, and its location in a major U.S. city provides connections to employers in industries such as finance, health care, technology, service, and education, offering students opportunities to gain valuable in-school experience via internships, clinical, and other career-related placements. More than 100 student organizations, including clubs, literary magazines, newspapers, radio stations, art galleries, and 16 NCAA Division III sports teams, offer a rich campus life. Students live throughout Greater Boston and in apartment communities steps from the campus and enjoy the rich amenities, cultural attractions, and educational opportunities that make the city the biggest and best college town in the nation. The University of Massachusetts Boston is a public research university with a dynamic teaching and learning culture and an outstanding civic and global engagement commitment. Our vibrant, multi-cultural educational environment encourages our broadly diverse campus community to thrive and succeed. Our distinguished scholarship, dedicated teaching, and engaged public service are mutually reinforcing, creating new knowledge while serving our city's public good, our CommonwealthCommonwealth, our nation, and our world. The University of Massachusetts Boston is an educational institution dedicated to rigorous, open, critical inquiry—a gateway to intellectual discovery in all branches of knowledge and a crucible for artistic expression. Our campus culture fosters imagination, creativity, and intellectual vitality. Responsive to the call of diverse disciplines, schools of thought, and public constituencies, we expect and welcome divergent views, honoring our shared commitment to expanding, creating, and disseminating knowledge. We celebrate our research culture, with its diversity of methods, commitments, and outcomes. We promote a culture of lifelong learning and catalyze intellectual interactions with scholarly communities, students, alumni, and the public. The University of Massachusetts Boston is evolving rapidly. The worlds of teaching, research, and service, the many communities our university serves, and the university itself all face different challenges than when the university was created. As Boston's only public university, while we honor our origins as a teaching institution and our tradition of public service, we must also move forward as the increasingly sophisticated research university we are and continue to become. In fulfilling complementary roles as an educator of people of all ages and an economic and cultural engine for the CommonwealthCommonwealth, we will expand our teaching and learning activities to prepare students to succeed in a global world. We will graduate more significant numbers of alumni to meet the demand for a well-educated workforce and the need for independent, creative, and compassionate citizens and leaders who will shape individual and social life quality. Serving our students well will require us to pursue deeply engaged research, teaching, and service to internationalize our reach and our campus life itself to build safe, modern, and technologically advanced academic and student-life facilities and to meet or exceed the best-practice student-success standards of our peer universities. Consistent with our traditions, we will maintain a strong commitment to educating modest-income and first-generation students from urban areas and to promoting the best interests of the City of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the nation, and the world. We will research local and global reach, which creates new knowledge in all major areas of human concern. That helps our students acquire the advanced and complex knowledge, values, and inquiry skills that the highest levels of research foster and the globalized world require. Our scholars will conduct funded and unfunded research and scholarship across a broad range of intra-and interdisciplinary areas. We will join the ranks of institutions designated by the Carnegie Foundation as "Research University/High," having achieved the requisite increases in enrollments, program offerings, advanced degrees granted, research support, and scholarly productivity.*By the end of the next phase of our development, in 2025, this vision will have been realized, and the University of Massachusetts Boston will be transformed, having fulfilled its aspiration to become an "outstanding public research university with a teaching soul." At UMass Boston, we are dedicated to rigorous, open critical inquiry, providing a gateway to intellectual discovery in all knowledge branches and a crucible artistic expression. Our faculty, research staff, and students foster imagination, creativity, and intellectual vitality. Responsive to the call of diverse disciplines, schools of thought, and public constituencies, we expect and welcome divergent views, thus honoring our shared commitment to expanding, creating, and disseminating knowledge. View full university