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University of Massachusetts - Boston was awarded 365 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is gerontology.
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UMass Boston landed the #433 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UMass Boston held the #895 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 63 colleges in Massachusetts, UMass Boston is ranked at #24.
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University of Massachusetts - Boston has an acceptance rate of 79%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 21% of students accepted to UMass Boston submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 640. Math scores were between 530 and 640.
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The student to faculty ratio at University of Massachusetts - Boston is about average at 15 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Massachusetts - Boston is 63%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
University of Massachusetts - Boston has a freshmen retention rate of 75%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at UMass Boston is 24%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 12,871 undergraduates at UMass Boston with 10,279 being full-time and 2,592 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,734 | $14,230 | $17,689 | $23,125 | $24,842 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UMass Boston, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UMass Boston, approximately 60% of students took out student loans averaging $5,499 a year. That adds up to $21,996 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at UMass Boston is 5.5%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for UMass Boston are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393 |
| Phone: | 617-287-5000 |
| Website: | www.umb.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/umassboston |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/umassboston |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Information Systems | 460 | $51,752 |
| Business Administration & Management | 456 | $47,484 |
| Nursing | 360 | $69,854 |
| General Psychology | 294 | $35,570 |
| General Biology | 193 | $36,178 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 154 | $43,068 |
| Economics | 134 | $41,678 |
| Health & Physical Education | 133 | $33,849 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 108 | $38,647 |
| Classical Languages & Literature | 84 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 4,150 students took at least one online class at University of Massachusetts - Boston. This is a decrease from the 16,254 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 4,150 | 2,062 |
| 2019-2020 | 16,254 | 16,078 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,202 | 1,444 |
| 2017-2018 | 3,287 | 972 |
| 2016-2017 | 3,451 | 1,123 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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