Established in 1964, The University of Boston Massachusetts provides the opportunity for an excellent Boston education at moderate cost to the people of greater Boston. The school is located on Columbia Point peninsula, along with the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. UMass Boston is nationally recognized as a model of excellence for urban universities.

The University of Massachusetts Boston student body is a diverse one, and the educational experience brings the resources of a major university to many types of different people. There are approximately 90 undergraduate and graduate fields of study, as well as advanced certificate programs through the school's distance education capabilities and corporate learning programs that the Boston student has at his or her fingertips. The University of Massachusetts Boston is one of only five institutions in the Greater Boston Urban Education Collaborative. The group works to improve the Boston education experience - expanding services, enriching programming, developing greater flexibility, and contributing more fully to the future development of the community.

Currently, The University of Mass Boston has an enrollment of approximately 13,300 students. And as for faculty, among the 818 distinguished members are Lloyd Schwartz who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1994 and Monet expert Paul Tucker.