UMass Boston

The University of Massachusetts Boston is a public research university founded in 1964 as the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts. It occupies Columbia Point in Dorchester, on Boston Harbor, beside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the Massachusetts Archives. It is the only public research university in the city of Boston.

Colleges include liberal arts, science and mathematics, management, nursing and health sciences, education and human development, and public and community service. Graduate students use research centers in public policy, labor, gerontology, Asian American studies, and environmental and urban harbor science.

Enrollment is about 16,000 students, including several thousand graduate students. The campus has a large share of first-generation, commuting, and racially diverse students, plus a sizable international cohort. Faculty number about 1,000, including part-time instructors.

Graduate degrees are master's and doctoral programs in education, nursing, the sciences, business, and the social sciences, mixing seminars, research, and professional internships on a semester calendar. Assistantships support many doctoral students. The setting is an urban harbor campus with transit into downtown Boston.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, UMass Boston lists 3 graduate programs in physics and computer science: 1 master's program and 2 doctoral programs.