Admissions & Financial Aid

Undergraduate Admissions

Undergraduate admissions at UMass Boston

When you join the nearly 16,000 students who attend UMass Boston, you join the diverse and devoted community that makes up Boston’s only public research university.

Our urban location not only provides a direct link to an energetic and vibrant city, but also gives students like you the chance to actively pursue career and internship opportunities while receiving a world-class education.

Our Office of Undergraduate Admissions staff can help you discover if UMass Boston is a good fit for you—and if you're a good fit for us, too.

We look for bright, creative, and hardworking students from varying backgrounds with a broad range of interests. 

What would you like to do?

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Majors, Minors, and Programs at UMass Boston

You can choose from more than 125 majors, minors, and programs in our eight colleges. Read More 


Student Housing Office

Looking for a place of your own near campus? Seeking roommates? Read More 

Undergraduate Course Catalog for 2011-2013

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Why UMass Boston?

Music major and theater minor Miguel Fana shares a laugh with two other winners of WUMB’s Talent Quest competition.

Miguel Fana

Class of 2013

“If you want to go somewhere in the entertainment industry, the professors give you many tools.”

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