Sunday, February 14, 2016

Suffolk University

Suffolk University is a private, non sectarian university located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With 9,192 students includes all campuses, 8,891 at the Boston location alone, it is the eighth largest university in Metro Boston. It was founded as a law school in 1906 and named after its location in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

The university is coeducational and comprises the Suffolk University Law School, the College of Arts & Sciences,and the Sawyer Business School, some of its MBA programs currently rank among the top 50 business programs in the country. It has an international campus in Madrid in addition to the main campus in downtown Boston.


 Due to its strategic location and well known law school, many notable scholars, prominent speakers and politicians have visited the university such as John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist,  and former U. S. President George H.W. Bush. all have given speeches at Suffolk.

Suffolk employs over 800 full time and adjunct faculty members, who instruct approximately 8,891 undergraduate and graduate students on its Boston Campus.

The Sawyer Business School previously the Sawyer School of Management focuses on global business education.It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. Joint degrees are also offered. About 3,000 students are currently enrolled in all programs.


 The Saturday only Executive MBA Program incorporates four off site one week seminars and week long global trips to London and China. The Global MBA is a specialized MBA in international business with an intensive concentration in either finance or marketing. 


The full time program includes a 3 month internship outside the student's home country. Summer 2010 Global MBA internships are in 10 countries.

 Part time Global complete either a global experiential research project at their place of business or a 3 month consulting project that includes an intensive 2 week residency outside the US.

The Suffolk College of Arts and Sciences has seventeen academic departments which offer more than seventy undergraduate and graduate programs. Among the departments is the New England School of Art and Design 






Suffolk University Law School, founded in 1906, offers a standard Doctor program and advanced L.L.M. program. 43% of applicants were admitted to the J.D. program in 2005.

The university is also home to various research centers and institutes, including the Beacon Hill Institute, a "free market think tank,"the Centers for Crime & Justice Policy Research, Restorative Justice, and Women's Health and Human Right, the Poetry Center, Political Research Centers, the R.S


 Friedman Field Station, and the Sagan Energy Research Laboratory.The Suffolk University Political Research Center conducts various scientific polls of national and regional political issues 

The residence hall at 150 Street was the first built by the university and currently houses students in singles, doubles, quads, and suites, with communal bathrooms. Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall  located at 10 Somerset St. 

was opened in 2005 and houses 15 floors of freshman, and 2 floors of sophomores in singles, doubles and quads, with bathrooms shared between every two rooms or one bathroom per quad.

 The 10 West Residence Hall, opened in 2008, has housing for freshman and sophomores in singles and doubles. Suites accommodate 3 5 students and a variety of apartment-style suites that include full kitchens house 2 to 8 students.

Both Miller Hall and 150  have cafeterias. Students living at 10 West/Modern Theater can eat at 150 . Suffolk University occasionally leases additional properties such as the Hyatt & Holiday Inn Beacon Hill. 


If leased, those locations house freshman students. In 2015, due to a long housing , Suffolk housed additional freshman at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and University.

The Modern Residence Hall opened in the fall of 2010 and is considered an extension to the 10 West Resident Hall. The two residence halls share one entrance at 10 West Street. The Modern Theater Residence Hall is built over the restored Modern

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