umass boston is in the dorchester part of boston.
umass boston is in the dorchester part of boston.
what part of boston is umass boston in?
the dorchester
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the university of massachusetts boston, also known as umass boston, is an urban public research university and the third-largest campus in the five-campus university of massachusetts system.









































the university is on on the columbia point peninsula in the city of boston, massachusetts, united states. umass boston is the only public university in boston. students are primarily from massachusetts but some are from other parts of the u.s. or different countries.









































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section::::history.:origins (pre-1964).
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in 1981, boston state college enrolled roughly 6,000 students, and despite the boston state college students having a similar demographic profile to umass boston students, many students expressed opposition to and disapproval of the merger. many of boston state college's undergraduate academic departments and programs that had equivalents at umass boston were disbanded, and as fewer of the boston state faculty had phds than the umass boston faculty did, the board of regents also decided to terminate the employment of 98 full-time faculty members, 275 part-time teachers, and 15 of the 35 administrators at boston state college. in the end, however, the merger boosted enrollment at umass boston by 38 percent in one year (from more than 8,000 in 60 areas of study in 1981 to more than 11,000 in 100 areas of study by 1983), and as boston state college had more graduate programs than umass boston did at the time of the merger, most of boston state college's graduate programs made the transition and tripled the graduate student enrollment at umass boston. by 1995, graduate students accounted for 21 percent of the university's total enrollment, and in 2011, the college of nursing and health sciences was the ninth largest and was ranked as the 50th best undergraduate nursing program in the united states (and third best in new england) by "u.s. news & world report".
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