The Benefits of a UMass Lowell Education

There are clear hallmarks of a UMass Lowell education, each focused on helping students succeed in their academic careers and, after graduation, in their professional careers.

Learning at UMass Lowell is characterized by:

Experiential Learning

•     Students learn through:

• work experience in industry and business (paid co-ops)
• service in community or civic projects
• discovery doing research with world-class faculty
• international experiences.
  
  •         Experiential learning enhances each student’s ability to address challenges in industry, business, or society.

Interdisciplinary learning

•         Students may:

• Create an interdisciplinary program by combining a major and minor,

* engineering or science major with management or

* music major with a science or engineering, or

* another unique combination

• Choose an inherently interdisciplinary major.

Student Success through Learning Communities

•         Learning communities connect small groups of students who work together to explore topics of interest to all.

•         Communities connect students to each other, to a professor in their major and to the campus community.

•         All freshmen are enrolled in learning communities.

Commonwealth Honors Program

•         The Honors Program offers 

   * First year seminars and advanced workshops,

   * Honors courses in your major,

   * Research experience  and Senior Thesis,

   * Honors residence hall, and

   * Enrichment acti

• More than 400 students across all majors currently participate.

Co-ops, Internships and Jobs

•         Career Services assists students in locating internships and co-ops.

•         More than 250 companies have hired international students for flexible, paid internships or co-ops.

•         UMass Lowell graduates earn the highest mid-career salaries of any public institution in New England.

Accelerated Master’s Programs (Plus One Progams)

•         Earn a master’s degree in a fifth year of study.

•         Enroll in certain graduate courses during your senior year.

•         Your Master’s can be in any of the colleges.

•         Your Master’s can be in the same discipline as your undergraduate major or in a different discipline.

Professional Science Masters Degrees

•         Professional Science Master’s Degrees (PSMs):

*  Are geared for advancement in industry and business,

*  Combine disciplinary training in science or engineering with business fundamentals, project leadership, team work and communication,

*  Include a co-op in industry or business, and

*  Are currently offered in Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Health Physics, Forensic Chemistry.