Simmons College (Massachusetts)
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| Type | Private women's Undergraduate, Co-educational Graduate |
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| Established | 1899 |
| President | Helen Drinan |
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Academic staff
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251 full-time/327 part-time |
| Undergraduates | 2,060 women |
| Postgraduates | 2,873 men and women |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | Sharks |
| Affiliations | Colleges of the Fenway |
| Website | www.simmons.edu |
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Simmons College, established in 1899, is a private women focused undergraduate college and private co-educational graduate school in Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Simmons was founded in 1899 with a bequest by John Simmons, a wealthy clothing manufacturer in Boston. Simmons founded the college based on the belief that women ought to live independently by offering a Liberal Arts education for undergraduate women to integrate into professional work experience. Simmons is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium, which also includes Emmanuel College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Wheelock College, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Simmons absorbed Garland Junior College in 1976.
Simmons graduated its first African American student in 1914. Furthermore, Simmons was one of the few private colleges not to impose admission quotas on Jewish students for the first half of the 1900s.
The undergraduate program is women-centered, with approximately 1800 students enrolled in the 2012-2013 academic year. The graduate schools (Library and Information Science, Social Work, Health Sciences, Business Management, and an Arts and Sciences program that provides degrees in Education, Communications Management, Gender and Cultural Studies, Public Policy and Liberal Arts) are coed, and have about 3,000 students. The school's MBA program is the first in the world designed specifically for women.
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