Merrimack College

Merrimack College is a private college in the Roman Catholic, Augustinian tradition located in North Andover, Massachusetts. It offers more than 100 undergraduate academic programs in business, education, science, engineering, and the liberal arts. Merrimack also serves non-traditional students through part-time undergraduate degree programs; masters programs in accounting, education, health science, counseling, management, public affairs, social policy, and engineering; and a range of certificate, licensure and degree completion offerings. There are over 3,200 full-time undergraduates and 500 graduate students from more than 32 states and 29 countries enrolled at Merrimack, 75% of whom reside on campus.

The school's president is Christopher E. Hopey. The college is a member of the Augustinian Secondary Education Association.

The Irish Augustinians came to Philadelphia in the United States in 1796. A small number of Augustinian friars eventually became the Province of St. Thomas of Villanova and in 1842, the Province established Villanova College near Philadelphia. The same Province established Merrimack College in 1947 in North Andover, Massachusetts at the invitation of Richard Cushing, then Archbishop of Boston, to serve the needs of servicemen returning home from World War II.

In March 1947, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted a charter to what was then called “The Augustinian College of the Merrimack Valley". Merrimack College, as the school eventually came to be called, especially seeks to relate to and to serve the inhabitants of this valley. A native Lawrencian, Reverend McQuade, initially led the college. Since that time, the now 220-acre Merrimack College has graduated nearly 22,000 students; has grown to nearly 40 buildings including a 125,000-volume library; four classroom buildings; including the Gregor Johann Mendel, O.S.A., Science, Engineering and Technology Center; the Sakowich Campus Center; the Rogers Center for the Arts; the Merrimack Athletic Complex; Austin Hall, which houses administrative offices; the Collegiate Church of Christ the Teacher; student apartment buildings, townhouses and residence halls; and the Louis H. Hamel Health Center.