Why UMass Lowell?

UMass Lowell offers 1400 online courses annually.

The University of Massachusetts ranks 13^th in the U.S. for intellectual property generated.

UMass Lowell currently enrolls about 2,400 graduate students.

More than 30 percent of the degrees awarded annually by the University go to students earning graduate degrees. This is one of the highest percentages among schools in the Northeast.

UML is included in the 2006 edition Princeton Review’s guidebook, “Best Value Colleges.”  

Princeton Review includes UMass Lowell’s MBA Program in the “Best Business Schools,” 2007.

The Master of Music in Sound Recording Technology is the only such program in the U.S. 

“The Master of Arts Program in Community Social Psychology is a national exemplar of excellence in master’s education.” Comments from the Academic Quality Assessment and Development Review Team, June 2006

The Clinical Lab Sciences/Medical Technology program has received perfect accreditation scores since 1989.

UMass Lowell “nurse practitioner graduates have a 100 percent pass rate on certification exams.” Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education Report, 2006

“In the three-year period 2004 through 2006, 98 percent of UML PT graduates passed the licensure exam and were employed within six months of graduation.” Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education Report

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) ranked the Radiological Sciences Program as one of the top 22 professional physics master’s degree programs in the country in 2001.

"UMass Lowell is among the nation’s leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering Program, the only one of its kind in the United States, is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, produced and processed.”  The Boston Globe, Nov. 17, 2003