Massachusetts, University of
- Massachusetts, University of
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state university system consisting of five coeducational campuses at
Amherst,
Boston,
Dartmouth (in North Dartmouth),
Lowell, and
Worcester. The main campus, at Amherst, provides a comprehensive array of courses within 10 colleges, schools, and faculties. It offers more than 80 bachelor's degree programs, about 70 master's degree programs, and over 50 doctoral programs; its Stockbridge School offers associate's degrees in six fields. Facilities include a 28-story library and outlying stations for marine and agricultural research. The university is part of the Five Colleges consortium—an educational exchange program with nearby Amherst (
Amherst College),
Hampshire, Mount Holyoke (
Mount Holyoke College), and
Smith (
Smith College) colleges. Total enrollment at the main campus is approximately 24,000.
The University of Massachusetts was founded in 1863 as Massachusetts Agricultural College, a land-grant university (
land-grant college) under the Morrill Act of 1862. Undergraduate instruction began in 1867, and graduate studies have been offered since 1896. The University of Massachusetts Worcester (until 1998 the University of Massachusetts Medical Center at Worcester) was founded in 1962 and accepted its first class in 1970; the Boston campus was founded in 1964. The 1993 Nobel Prize for Physics commemorated the 1974 discovery of the binary pulsar by two astrophysicists of the University of Massachusetts, Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. (
Taylor, Joseph H., Jr.), and
Russell A. Hulse (
Hulse, Russell Alan).
The Lowell campus, previously known as the University of Lowell, was founded as two separate institutions—a teacher-training school and a textile school—in 1894–95. The Dartmouth campus, previously known as Southeastern Massachusetts University, was also founded as two separate institutions—both textile schools—in 1895. Both the Lowell and the Dartmouth campuses were incorporated into the University of Massachusetts system in 1991.
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