List of colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston

Map of the land owned or leased by colleges and universities in the Boston area

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. 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 52 institutions of higher education here, including 7 junior colleges, 14 colleges that primarily grant baccalaureate and master's degrees, 8 research universities, and 23 special-focus institutions. Of these, 50 are non-profit organizations while 3 are for-profit businesses, and 48 are private ventures while 5 are public institutions (4 are run by the state of Massachusetts and 1 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 in the area is the Urban College of Boston. All but four of these schools are accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the oldest regional accrediting body in the United States, and all but one are recognized by the United States Department of Education.

Institutions

Name	Location	Control[1]	Classification[1]	Enrollment[2]	Founded[3]	NEASC-accredited[4]
Andover Newton Theological School	Newton	Private	Special-focus	350	1807	1978
Bay State College	Boston	For-profit	Associate’s	354	1946	2008
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology	Boston	Private	Special-focus	513	1908	2006
Bentley University	Waltham	Private	Master's	5,662	1917	1966
Berklee College of Music	Boston	Private	Special-focus	4,054	1945	1973
Boston Architectural College	Boston	Private	Special-focus	1,338	1889	1991
Boston Baptist College	Milton	Private	Special-focus	153	1976
Boston College	Newton	Private	Research	14,621	1863	1935
Boston Conservatory	Boston	Private	Special-focus	613	1867	1968
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis	Brookline	Private	Special-focus	178	1973	1996
Boston University	Boston	Private	Research	31,766	1839	1929
Brandeis University	Waltham	Private	Research	5,327	1948	1953
Bunker Hill Community College	Boston	Public	Associate’s	8,806	1973	1976
Cambridge College	Cambridge	Private	Master's	5,355	1971	1981
Curry College	Milton	Private	Baccalaureate	3,097	1879	1970
Eastern Nazarene College	Quincy	Private	Baccalaureate	1,050	1900	1943
Emerson College	Boston	Private	Master's	4,536	1880	1950
Emmanuel College	Boston	Private	Master's	2,467	1919	1933
Episcopal Divinity School	Cambridge	Private	Special-focus	108	1975
Fisher College	Boston	Private	Associate's	1,225	1903	1970
Harvard University	Cambridge	Private	Research	25,690	1636	1929
Hebrew College	Newton	Private	Special-focus	201	1921	1955
Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology	Brookline	Private	Special-focus	186	1937	1974
Hult International Business School	Cambridge	Private	Special-focus	1,000	1964	1976
Labouré College	Boston	Private	Associate's	548	1892	1975
Lasell College	Newton	Private	Baccalaureate	1,469	1851	1932
Lesley University	Cambridge	Private	Master's	7,003	1909	1952
Longy School of Music	Cambridge	Private	Special-focus	235	1915	1995
Massachusetts College of Art and Design	Boston	Public	Special-focus	2,349	1873	1954
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	Boston	Private	Special-focus	3,909	1823	1974
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	Private	Research	10,229	1861	1929
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology	Boston	Private	Special-focus	304	1974	1984
MGH Institute of Health Professions	Boston	Private	Special-focus	835	1977	1985
Mount Ida College	Newton	Private	Baccalaureate	1,460	1899	1970
New England College of Business and Finance	Boston	Private	Master's	711	1909	2008
New England College of Optometry	Boston	Private	Special-focus	464	1894	1976
New England Conservatory	Boston	Private	Special-focus	714	1867	1951
New England Institute of Art	Brookline	For-profit	Special-focus	1,975	1952	2004
New England School of Law	Boston	Private	Special-focus	1,103	1938
New England School of Photography	Boston	For-profit	Special-focus	119	1968
Newbury College	Brookline	Private	Baccalaureate	1,088	1962	2000
Northeastern University	Boston	Private	Research	24,434	1898	1940
Pine Manor College	Brookline	Private	Baccalaureate	452	1911	1939
Quincy College	Quincy	Public	Associate’s	3,932	1958	1980
Roxbury Community College	Boston	Public	Associate’s	2,398	1973	1981
Saint John's Seminary	Boston	Private	Special-focus	118	1884	1969
School of the Museum of Fine Arts	Boston	Private	Special-focus	797	1876
Simmons College	Boston	Private	Master's	4,933	1899	1929
Suffolk University	Boston	Private	Master's	9,000	1906	1952
Tufts University	Medford	Private	Research	10,252	1852	1929
University of Massachusetts Boston	Boston	Public	Research	14,117	1964	1972
Urban College of Boston	Boston	Private	Associate’s	673	1993	2001
Wentworth Institute of Technology	Boston	Private	Special-focus	3,816	1904	1967
Wheelock College	Boston	Private	Master's	1,109	1939	1950

See also

• List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts for a full listing of the institutions of higher education in Massachusetts.
• Colleges of Worcester Consortium for Worcester-area colleges.

Notes and references

1. ^ ^{a b} "Institution Lookup". Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/index.asp?key=782. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
2. ^ "Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries". U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ "Roster of Institutions: Massachusetts". Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (CIHE) of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). http://cihe.neasc.org/about_our_institutions/roster_of_institutions/#Massachusettss. Retrieved 2009-07-01.