120 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116-4624

Founded more than a 100 ago, Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, is a four-year institution of higher learning that is dedicated to instructing students in communication and the arts within a liberal arts frame of learning.

Prospective students may choose to enroll in either the undergraduate or graduate program, in order to earn a bachelor's degree or master's degree. Currently this Massachusetts college boasts approximately 3,200 full-time undergraduate students and about 900 part- and full-time graduate students. Despite this, the school maintains a student-faculty ratio of 14 to one. Over the years approximately 18,000 students have graduated to enter the fields of communication and entertainment -- in addition to other areas.

Emerson College currently boasts programs in: the performing arts; visual and media arts; writing, literature, and publishing; communication science and orders; journalism; marketing communication; organizational and political communication; and the humanities and social sciences. The Department of Professional Studies and Special Programs also allows students to enroll on a part-time and/or non-credit basis.

Quick Facts:

Emerson College has been accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, as well as the Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech-Language-Learning, and the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Emerson College students participate in such extracurricular groups and organizations as: Amigos; Asian Students for Intercultural Awareness (ASIA); Communications, Politics, and Law Association (CPLA); Earth Emerson; Emerson Independent Video (EIV); and Emerson College Game Developers Association.

Students of this Massachusetts college participate in such athletics as: men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross-country, men's and women's soccer, men's baseball, and women's softball.

For the 2006-07 school year, nearly 5,000 prospective students applied to Emerson College, with 47 percent gaining admittance.

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