Graduate Bulletin/Catalog
The University of Massachusetts Boston is a community of scholars that prides itself on academic excellence, diversity, and its commitment to serving students and the greater Boston community. UMass Boston was founded in 1964 to provide the opportunity for superior undergraduate and graduate education at moderate cost to the people of the Commonwealth and particularly of the greater Boston area. It's a lively place, where classes go on year round, and where studies in a wide range of disciplines are conducted by a truly distinguished faculty.
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The university's urban setting allows it to offer a broad array of resources—educational, professional, and cultural. These resources, together with UMass Boston's active concern for individual academic development, offer students the opportunity for an excellent education.
Three miles south of downtown Boston, UMass Boston shares a peninsula overlooking Boston Harbor with the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum, and the John F Kennedy Presidential Library. The Library building, designed by IM Pei, has become a Boston landmark. The JFK Library shares its impressive archival resources with UMass Boston through a series of educational programs. An equally impressive range of research opportunities is provided by the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum.
UMass Boston, which has more than 12,000 students in its undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs, is the second-largest campus in the University of Massachusetts system. With campuses at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester, the University of Massachusetts serves more than 57,000 students and is the largest university system in New England.