University of Massachusetts Lowell

The University of Massachusetts Lowell is a public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, and one of five campuses in the University of Massachusetts system. It grew from the Lowell Normal School (1894) and the Lowell Textile School (1895), which merged in 1975 as the University of Lowell and joined UMass in 1991. The campus lies along the Merrimack River in a former mill city and keeps a technical and industrial character.

Colleges include the Francis College of Engineering, the Kennedy College of Sciences, the Manning School of Business, fine arts, humanities and social sciences, health sciences, and education. Graduate work is concentrated in plastics and polymer engineering, nuclear engineering, computer science, and business. Facilities include a research nuclear reactor and the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, which connects engineering students to regional industry.

About 18,000 students enroll, including several thousand graduate students and a modest international cohort. Faculty number about 1,000. Alumni include novelist R. A. Salvatore and public officials who have served Massachusetts.

Graduate study is offered as professional master's degrees, research M.S. programs, and Ph.D.s, especially in engineering and the sciences, mixing coursework with laboratory supervision. The calendar follows the standard U.S. semester. Students work across riverfront campuses in Lowell, about 30 miles northwest of Boston, with housing and labs close to downtown.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Massachusetts Lowell lists 1 master's program, in chemistry.