Why Simmons

We pledge to help you achieve a successful career, a meaningful life, and a powerful return on your educational investment.

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The Simmons advantage

The Simmons advantage is more than an exceptional education — it’s an experience that will prepare you for your life’s work.

Our innovative graduate programs allow you to customize your courses of study. You’ll learn through small classes, case-based discussions, experiential learning, research opportunities and seminars. Our professors are thought-leaders and award winners, researchers and professionals in the field. Accessible and dedicated, they’ll go the extra mile to help you succeed.

Our location in the heart of Boston offers all the benefits of a small college campus with the unparalleled opportunities of a large university. You’ll have direct access to career, research, and clinical opportunities at world-renowned institutions. Plus, our worldwide alumnae/i network is committed to empowering Simmons University graduates because they know what Simmons students are capable of.

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Professional Opportunity

Our graduate programs respond to the needs of an ever-changing world and prepare you for leadership in your field. 

Professional Opportunity

The city of Boston

Experience Boston

Simmons draws on Boston's cultural, historical, economic, scientific, and educational resources to offer an unparalleled student experience.

Experience Boston

The Simmons academic campus

Schools and Departments

Our schools and departments offer specialized resources to support and challenge you.

Explore Our Schools and Departments


Simmons at a Glance

4,858

graduate students

Our community is made up of a diverse group of graduate men and women.

8:1

student to faculty ratio

Simmons faculty members are leaders in their fields and mentors in the classroom.

231

full-time faculty

Simmons faculty members are leaders in their fields and mentors in the classroom.

Our faculty

At a glance


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Graduate and certificate programs

Whether you're coming straight from undergraduate study — or making a change mid-career — our programs will prepare you for your next move.

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Financial aid & tuition

At Simmons, we work to support students pursuing an education through financing, financial education, and exceptional customer service.

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Student support & resources

You'll find everything you need on campus — from medical resources to keep you healthy to technical support to keep your computer running.

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Visit us

Come and see what the classroom experience is like and get to know our dynamic faculty members.

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Our faculty

You’ll study with faculty who are thought-leaders and award winners, researchers and professionals in their fields.

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Community engagement

We facilitate and promote community-based learning and develop strategic partnerships to advance learning, promote civic engagement, and enhance community involvement in order to create a more just society.

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Commitment to inclusivity

We are committed to holding true to our founding principle of inclusion — embracing students from all backgrounds and all forms of human uniqueness to create an environment of true religious, cultural, racial, sexual orientation, gender expression and ability diversity.

Faculty & Research

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SLIS Faculty Member Receives Research Grant

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) announced that Professor Naresh Agarwal, a faculty member at Simmons’ School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and Director of the Information Science and Technology Concentration, has received the 2025 Bob Williams...


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Nutrition Professor Weighs In On Dietary Guidelines

Department of Nutrition Professor Teresa Fung was quoted in an article on Civil Eats, “Everything You Know About the Dietary Guidelines Is Wrong.”


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Professor Shares Response to Censorship in Higher Ed

School of Library and Information Science Professor and Associate Dean Laura Saunders published an article on “The Chilling Impact of Censorship in Higher Education."


Management and Academic Building on the Simmons University campus

Simmons School of Management Welcomes New Faculty

Justine Pouravelis is a 15-time Emmy-Award Winning sports media executive with 17 years of industry experience. Christina Ramey specializes in program development and operational excellence in higher education and professional learning.


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Simmons Faculty Member Quoted in The Washington Post

An article in The Washington Post discusses the impact of Miranda July’s second novel and features commentary by Suzanne Leonard, Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Program Director for Gender and Cultural Studies.


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Boston Globe Interviews Professor on Threats to Archives

Katherine Wisser, Associate Professor and Master's Program Director, Director Archives Concentration, and Director of Archives Certificate Program in the Simmons School of Library and Information Science was interviewed by The Boston Globe for, “An archivist’s job is to ‘keep the receipts.’ What happens when they can’t do their job?”


Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis

SLIS Lecturer Researches Women Who Collected Medieval Art

In a talk she delivered at the 2024 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, School of Library and Information Science faculty member Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis discussed the history of women creating, reading, and owning medieval European manuscripts. To honor Women’s History Month 2025, we spoke with her about this research and its connection to her Simmons courses.


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Artist-Scholar Integrates Politics, Poetry, and Race

Assistant Professor of Humanities Patrick Sylvain is a literary scholar and poet whose intellectual curiosity knows no bounds. His work explores the issues of nationhood, leadership, race, and (de)colonization. In conjunction with Black History Month 2025, we spoke with him about Haitian politics, poetry, and zombies.