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This page is about the university system across Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts Amherst was known as the University of Massachusetts from 1947 until the creation of the UMass system.
See Middlesex University (Massachusetts) for a private institution named the "University of Massachusetts" which operated from 1917 until 1937, when it merged with Middlesex College to form Middlesex University.

The University of Massachusetts (officially nicknamed UMass) is the five-campus public university system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline.

Campuses

UMass Amherst

UMass Amherst is the flagship campus and the largest of all five campuses. It was also the first campus established. Like many colleges and universities, Massachusetts Agricultural College (as it was called) the Amherst campus was founded as a land-grant college in 1863, receiving initial start-up funding as part of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. It is part of the Five College consortium in the Pioneer Valley region. It became Massachusetts State College in 1937, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1947.

UMass Boston

On the Columbia Point peninsula of Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, UMass Boston is the youngest of the campuses, beginning in 1964.

UMass Dartmouth

Located in southeastern Massachusetts, UMass Dartmouth started in 1895 as the New Bedford Textile School and the Bradford Durfee Textile School.

UMass Lowell

Located in the Merrimack Region, UMass Lowell started in 1894 as the Lowell Normal School and in 1895 as the Lowell Textile School.

UMass Medical

Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, UMass Medical was founded in 1962 and is affiliated with the UMass Memorial Health Care system.

University President

From 1996 to 2003, the President of the University was William Bulger, president of the Massachusetts State Senate for seventeen years, and prominent and influential Democratic politician with roots in South Boston. Bulger became involved in court testimony about his notorious brother, Whitey Bulger. He was forced to resign after a sustained campaign for his ouster by Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

The President of the University from the Fall of 2004 has been Jack Wilson, former CEO of UMassOnline and interim President of the University after the departure of William Bulger.Campus News (2004). UMass Lowell Magazine, Fall 2004, 13.] Retrieved February 152005, http://www.umass.edu/senate/minutes623-wilson.pdf Address by Jack M. Wilson, Interim President, University of Massachusetts at the 63rd Regular Meeting of the Faculty Senate on October 16, 2003.] Retrieved February 152005. For his work at UMassOnline, Mr. Wilson was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame in October 2004.Wilson inducted into distance learning hall of fame (18 Oct 2004). In the Loop: News for Staff & Faculty. Retrieved February 152005.

Notable alumni

Listed in alphabetical order

References

External links

Official sites:

"UMass" is also the name of a song by the Pixies off their album Trompe le Monde. It was named after the university.

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