University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a public campus of the University of Massachusetts system in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It began in 1895 as the New Bedford Textile School, later became Southeastern Massachusetts University, and joined UMass in 1991. The main campus is a concrete complex designed by Paul Rudolph on a several-hundred-acre site between New Bedford and Fall River.

Colleges include Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Nursing and Health Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts, the Charlton College of Business, and the University of Massachusetts School of Law, the state's public law school. Marine and environmental work is concentrated in the School for Marine Science and Technology in New Bedford. Engineering, marine science, and law are the graduate fields most associated with the campus.

Enrollment is about 7,000 to 8,000 students, with graduate and professional students a minority of the total. Faculty number several hundred. International students are a modest share and come from a range of countries. Alumni work in engineering, maritime industries, K-12 education, and South Coast public life.

Graduate degrees include master's and doctoral study in engineering and marine science, the JD at UMass Law, and professional master's in business and nursing. Research students work in waterfront laboratories in New Bedford as well as on the Dartmouth campus. The academic year is a standard United States semester calendar. Funding includes assistantships, especially in STEM fields, and federal marine-research grants. Graduate life is split between the suburban campus and the port cities of New Bedford and Fall River.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth lists 2 graduate programs in computer science, all of them doctoral programs.