The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is located on 177 acres on Columbia Point in the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Students are primarily from Massachusetts but also from other parts of the United States and from foreign countries.
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The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is located on 177 acres on Columbia Point in the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Students are primarily from Massachusetts but also from other parts of the United States and from foreign countries.
UMass Boston is the only public university in the city of Boston.
It was announced in January 2009 that UMass Boston will receive the papers of late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.
The University of Massachusetts at Boston was established in 1964 when the state legislature voted to establish a new university campus in Boston. The official Founding Day Convocation and ceremony was held on December 10, 1966 in the Prudential Tower in Boston and inaugurated UMASS/Boston as an official institution of higher learning and formally installed the first Chancellor of the university, John W....
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