National Collegiate Honors Council
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Date of this Version
2025
Document Type
Book Chapter
Citation
A chapter in Honoring the First-Year Seminar: Exploring High-Impact Learning Experiences for the First Year in Honors, pages 305-309
Lincoln, Nebraska: National Collegiate Honors Council, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-9450001-23-9
Abstract
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth) is a comprehensive, regional campus of the University of Massachusetts system. It is a Carnegie-classified doctoral university of high research activity located in the South Coast region of the state, close to Cape Cod and between the cities of Fall River and New Bedford. The university offers 61 undergraduate majors, 88 minors, 42 master’s degree programs, 17 doctoral programs, and 43 graduate-level certificate programs. These programs are spread across five academic colleges: Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Charlton College of Business, Visual and Performing Arts, and Nursing and Health Sciences. There are also two graduate-only colleges: the School for Marine Sciences and the UMass Law School. The undergraduate enrollment is 5,517 students, and the graduate enrollment is 1,940. Eighty percent of students are Massachusetts residents, 37.8% of enrollment is non-white, and 52% is female. Nearly half of the undergraduate students (48%) live on campus, and 57% are first-generation students. UMass Dartmouth has a 15:1 student-faculty ratio with 381 full-time faculty; 270 are tenured or tenure-track.
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