Simmons College

Simmons College is a women's college in Boston, Massachusetts. Simmons is noted for its emphasis on pre-professional undergraduate education. Simmons was founded in 1899 with a bequest by John Simmons to educate women in useful professions, so they could have an independent livelihood. Simmons is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium which also includes Emmanuel College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Wheelock College, Massachuset... more

Simmons College is a women's college in Boston, Massachusetts. Simmons is noted for its emphasis on pre-professional undergraduate education. Simmons was founded in 1899 with a bequest by John Simmons to educate women in useful professions, so they could have an independent livelihood. Simmons is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium which also includes Emmanuel College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Wheelock College, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Simmons absorbed Garland Junior College in 1976. The undergraduate program is single-sex, with 2,060 students enrolled in the 2008-2009 academic year. The graduate schools (Library and Information Science, Social Work, Health Sciences, Management, and an Arts and Sciences program which provide degrees in Education, Communications Management, Gender and Cultural Studies and Liberal Arts) are mostly coed. The exception to the coed graduate programs is the... less