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Map of the land owned or leased by colleges and universities in the Boston area as of 2021
[update]
This is a list of colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston . Some are located within
Boston proper while some are located in neighboring cities and towns, but all are within the
128 /
95 /
1 loop. This is closer to the "inner core" definition of
Metropolitan Boston , which excludes more suburban North Shore, South Shore and MetroWest regions. Although larger institutions may have several schools, some of which are located in cities other than that of the main campus (such as
Harvard Medical School and
Tufts University School of Medicine ), each institution is listed only once and location is determined by the site of each institution's main
campus .
There are a total of 44 institutions of higher education in the defined region, including five
junior colleges , 11 colleges that primarily grant
baccalaureate and
master's degrees , eight
research universities , and 20
special-focus institutions . Of these, 39 are
private ventures while five are
public institutions (four are run by the
state of
Massachusetts and one is operated by the
city of
Quincy ).
In 2007,
enrollment at these colleges and universities ranged from 108 students at the
Episcopal Divinity School to 32,053 students at
Boston University . The first to be founded was
Harvard University , also the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, while the most recently established institution is
Sattler College . All but three of these schools are
accredited by the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the oldest
regional accrediting body in the United States.
Institutions
Name
Location
Control
[1]
Classification
[1]
Enrollment
[2]
Founded
[a]
NEASC-accredited
[3]
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology
Boston
Private
Special-focus
513
1908
2006
Bentley University
Waltham
Private
Master's
5,165
1917
1966
Berklee College of Music
Boston
Private
Special-focus
8,282
1945
1973
Boston Architectural College
Boston
Private
Special-focus
747
1889
1991
Boston Baptist College
Milton
Private
Special-focus
43
1976
Boston College
Newton
Private
Research
15,287
1863
1935
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Brookline
Private
Special-focus
155
1973
1996
Boston University
Boston
Private
Research
36,714
1839
1929
Brandeis University
Waltham
Private
Research
5,581
1948
1953
Bunker Hill Community College
Boston
Public
Associate's
8,439
1973
1976
Cambridge College
Boston
Private
Master's
2,135
1971
1981
Curry College
Milton
Private
Baccalaureate
2,052
1879
1970
Eastern Nazarene College
Quincy
Private
Baccalaureate
535
1900
1943
Emerson College
Boston
Private
Master's
5,891
1880
1950
Emmanuel College
Boston
Private
Master's
2,012
1919
1933
Fisher College
Boston
Private
Baccalaureate
1,421
1903
1970
Harvard University
Cambridge
Private
Research
30,631
1636
1929
Hebrew College
Newton
Private
Special-focus
212
1921
1955
Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Brookline
Private
Special-focus
161
1937
1974
Hult International Business School
Cambridge
Private
Special-focus
2,176
1964
1976
Labouré College
Milton
Private
Associate's
983
1892
1975
Lasell University
Newton
Private
Baccalaureate
1,591
1851
1932
Lesley University
Cambridge
Private
Master's
3,406
1909
1952
Longy School of Music of Bard College
Cambridge
Private
Special-focus
315
1915
1995
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston
Public
Special-focus
1,939
1873
1954
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Boston
Private
Special-focus
6,824
1823
1974
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Private
Research
11,858
1861
1929
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Boston
Private
Special-focus
1,353
1977
1985
New England College of Optometry
Boston
Private
Special-focus
536
1894
1976
New England Conservatory
Boston
Private
Special-focus
796
1867
1951
New England Law | Boston
Boston
Private
Special-focus
1,060
1938
North Bennet Street School
Boston
Private
Special-focus
152
1881
1985
Northeastern University
Boston
Private
Research
30,013
1898
1940
Quincy College
Quincy
Public
Associate's
2,602
1958
1980
Roxbury Community College
Boston
Public
Associate's
1,214
1973
1981
Saint John's Seminary
Boston
Private
Special-focus
103
1884
1969
Sattler College
Boston
Private
Special-focus
93
2016
Simmons University
Boston
Private
Master's
5,710
1899
1929
Suffolk University
Boston
Private
Master's
6,734
1906
1952
Tufts University
Medford
Private
Research
13,431
1852
1929
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston
Public
Research
15,586
1964
1972
Urban College of Boston
Boston
Private
Associate's
596
1993
2001
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Boston
Private
Special-focus
3,920
1904
1967
William James College
Newton
Private
Special-focus
897
1974
1984
See also
Explanatory notes
^ Founding year is institutionally determined. It may differ from the institution's charter year, the year it became an institution of higher education, or the year it took its current name.
References