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Massachusetts has 81 degree-granting institutions in this data. Between them they award 10,627 research doctorates and 72,840 master’s degrees over the window, and take $2.73bn in federal research and development money.
This page counts every institution in the state, including the ones that award no graduate degree at all. Leaving those out would make a state look like its flagship.
institutions in the state
28 award a research doctorate. 10 enrol no graduate students at all.
of research doctorates go to non-residents
4,428 of 10,627. National figure: 38.9%.
of graduate enrolment is non-resident
43,875 of 147,971 graduate students.
federal research and development money
Across 47 institutions. $2.24bn in total federal obligations.
Where Massachusetts sits
The non-resident share of research doctorates, against the same figure for the country. That is 2.8 points above the national figure of 38.9%.
Massachusetts ranks 21 of 52 states on that share, and 4 of 56 on the number of research doctorates it awards. Rank 1 is the highest. Only states that award doctorates are ranked.
Undergraduate and graduate, side by side
The same institutions at two levels. Undergraduate is the remainder once graduate enrolment is taken out of the total, and both levels carry their own non-resident count. In Massachusetts the graduate share is 20.4 points higher than the undergraduate share.
Click any column heading to sort. Click it again to reverse. The panel under the table narrows what is shown — everything is shown until you ask for less.
| Institution | Undergraduates | Non-res | Share | Graduates | Non-res | Share | State funding | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston University | 18,656 | 4,057 | 21.7% | 17,968 | 6,411 | 35.7% | — | $784.4m |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 23,936 | 1,834 | 7.7% | 7,874 | 2,623 | 33.3% | $556.8m | $281.7m |
| Northeastern University | 15,891 | 2,421 | 15.2% | 15,268 | 9,725 | 63.7% | — | $346.9m |
| Harvard University | 9,095 | 1,286 | 14.1% | 21,291 | 6,590 | 31.0% | — | $1.49bn |
| University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 12,128 | 275 | 2.3% | 4,642 | 850 | 18.3% | $184.7m | $120.7m |
| University of Massachusetts-Boston | 12,373 | 844 | 6.8% | 3,437 | 888 | 25.8% | $210.8m | $74.6m |
| Boston College | 10,083 | 849 | 8.4% | 5,197 | 998 | 19.2% | — | $96.3m |
| Tufts University | 6,877 | 839 | 12.2% | 6,397 | 1,103 | 17.2% | — | $278.3m |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4,576 | 505 | 11.0% | 7,344 | 3,000 | 40.8% | — | $1.07bn |
| Bridgewater State University | 8,172 | 33 | 0.4% | 1,378 | 40 | 2.9% | $95.6m | — |
| Berklee College of Music | 7,608 | 2,276 | 29.9% | 840 | 315 | 37.5% | — | — |
| University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 5,602 | 76 | 1.4% | 2,157 | 652 | 30.2% | $124.3m | $42.4m |
| Northeastern University Professional Programs | 2,525 | 584 | 23.1% | 4,946 | 3,060 | 61.9% | — | — |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 5,453 | 358 | 6.6% | 1,900 | 740 | 38.9% | — | $71.6m |
| Suffolk University | 4,484 | 541 | 12.1% | 2,213 | 397 | 17.9% | — | $4.9m |
| Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | 3,477 | 443 | 12.7% | 2,844 | 492 | 17.3% | — | — |
| Fitchburg State University | 3,133 | 35 | 1.1% | 3,163 | 281 | 8.9% | $58.9m | — |
| Salem State University | 4,853 | 151 | 3.1% | 1,386 | 48 | 3.5% | $89.6m | — |
| Merrimack College | 4,199 | 83 | 2.0% | 1,489 | 30 | 2.0% | — | $2.9m |
| Emerson College | 4,171 | 682 | 16.4% | 1,499 | 114 | 7.6% | — | — |
| Worcester State University | 4,734 | 65 | 1.4% | 877 | 15 | 1.7% | $55.2m | — |
| Brandeis University | 3,675 | 766 | 20.8% | 1,627 | 628 | 38.6% | — | $107.1m |
| Bentley University | 4,350 | 659 | 15.1% | 914 | 186 | 20.4% | — | $4.6m |
| Simmons University | 1,760 | 76 | 4.3% | 3,293 | 97 | 2.9% | — | — |
| North Shore Community College | 4,833 | 10 | 0.2% | — | — | — | $44.4m | — |
| Westfield State University | 3,788 | 36 | 1.0% | 767 | 9 | 1.2% | $55.5m | — |
| Endicott College | 3,176 | 40 | 1.3% | 1,078 | 15 | 1.4% | — | — |
| Clark University | 2,369 | 124 | 5.2% | 1,755 | 1,324 | 75.4% | — | $12.7m |
| Framingham State University | 2,817 | 31 | 1.1% | 1,211 | 16 | 1.3% | $59.4m | — |
| Wentworth Institute of Technology | 3,813 | 156 | 4.1% | 205 | 31 | 15.1% | — | — |
| Babson College | 2,752 | 799 | 29.0% | 1,191 | 549 | 46.1% | — | $1.8m |
| Holyoke Community College | 3,706 | 23 | 0.6% | — | — | — | $39.9m | — |
| Western New England University | 2,584 | 54 | 2.1% | 990 | 180 | 18.2% | — | $1.2m |
| Mount Wachusett Community College | 3,204 | 9 | 0.3% | — | — | — | $29.5m | — |
| Lesley University | 1,342 | 46 | 3.4% | 1,792 | 36 | 2.0% | — | — |
| Regis College | 1,096 | 7 | 0.6% | 1,746 | 3 | 0.2% | — | — |
| Smith College | 2,506 | 322 | 12.8% | 324 | 18 | 5.6% | — | $7.4m |
| Springfield College | 1,924 | 80 | 4.2% | 861 | 54 | 6.3% | — | — |
| Bay Path University | 1,278 | 2 | 0.2% | 1,365 | 8 | 0.6% | — | — |
| Cape Cod Community College | 2,604 | 1 | 0.0% | — | — | — | $24.4m | — |
| Stonehill College | 2,515 | 45 | 1.8% | 69 | 2 | 2.9% | — | — |
| Wellesley College | 2,418 | 342 | 14.1% | — | — | — | — | $7.0m |
| Mount Holyoke College | 2,209 | 493 | 22.3% | 121 | 4 | 3.3% | — | $2.4m |
| Williams College | 2,112 | 173 | 8.2% | 56 | 35 | 62.5% | — | $7.1m |
| American International College | 1,331 | 80 | 6.0% | 811 | 24 | 3.0% | — | — |
| Emmanuel College | 1,973 | 16 | 0.8% | 86 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Assumption University | 1,688 | 43 | 2.5% | 358 | 5 | 1.4% | — | — |
| Hult International Business School | 694 | 523 | 75.4% | 1,309 | 1,181 | 90.2% | — | — |
| Curry College | 1,818 | 50 | 2.8% | 176 | 2 | 1.1% | — | — |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design | 1,876 | 67 | 3.6% | 110 | 29 | 26.4% | $39.7m | — |
| Cambridge College | 717 | 23 | 3.2% | 1,235 | 65 | 5.3% | — | — |
| Amherst College | 1,910 | 236 | 12.4% | — | — | — | — | $8.7m |
| Gordon College | 1,293 | 138 | 10.7% | 317 | 12 | 3.8% | — | — |
| Berkshire Community College | 1,572 | 5 | 0.3% | — | — | — | $21.5m | — |
| Lasell University | 1,183 | 22 | 1.9% | 344 | 22 | 6.4% | — | — |
| Fisher College | 1,384 | 141 | 10.2% | 117 | 8 | 6.8% | — | — |
| MGH Institute of Health Professions | 311 | 0 | 0.0% | 1,173 | 0 | 0.0% | — | $10.0m |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | 0 | 0 | — | 1,394 | 111 | 8.0% | $74.4m | $349.6m |
| Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 1,373 | 57 | 4.2% | — | — |
| Massachusetts Maritime Academy | 1,271 | 20 | 1.6% | 91 | 0 | 0.0% | $33.2m | — |
| Nichols College | 1,152 | 32 | 2.8% | 202 | 3 | 1.5% | — | — |
| Anna Maria College | 995 | 93 | 9.3% | 337 | 21 | 6.2% | — | — |
| College of Our Lady of the Elms | 1,038 | 18 | 1.7% | 294 | 4 | 1.4% | — | — |
| New England Law-Boston | 0 | 0 | — | 1,083 | 37 | 3.4% | — | — |
| William James College | 36 | 0 | 0.0% | 915 | 7 | 0.8% | — | — |
| Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | 836 | 8 | 1.0% | 97 | 0 | 0.0% | $31.6m | — |
| Boston Architectural College | 306 | 47 | 15.4% | 481 | 149 | 31.0% | — | — |
| The New England Conservatory of Music | 393 | 154 | 39.2% | 391 | 216 | 55.2% | — | — |
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | 592 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | — | — | — |
| New England College of Optometry | 0 | 0 | — | 529 | 168 | 31.8% | — | $3.6m |
| Springfield College-Regional, Online, and Continuing Education | 254 | 1 | 0.4% | 167 | 2 | 1.2% | — | — |
| Franklin W Olin College of Engineering | 402 | 31 | 7.7% | — | — | — | — | $1.8m |
| Longy School of Music of Bard College | 34 | 27 | 79.4% | 284 | 155 | 54.6% | — | — |
| Massachusetts School of Law | 0 | 0 | — | 284 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology | 64 | 2 | 3.1% | 135 | 3 | 2.2% | — | — |
| Hebrew College | 93 | 0 | 0.0% | 84 | 2 | 2.4% | — | — |
| Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc | 0 | 0 | — | 169 | 10 | 5.9% | — | — |
| Northpoint Bible College | 92 | 5 | 5.4% | 36 | 1 | 2.8% | — | — |
| Saint John's Seminary | 24 | 3 | 12.5% | 96 | 14 | 14.6% | — | — |
| Conway School of Landscape Design | 0 | 0 | — | 18 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| University of Massachusetts-Central Office | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
The two levels diverge most at Clark University: 5.2% of its 2,369 undergraduates and 75.4% of its 1,755 graduate students. These are different admissions systems with different applicant pools, different money and different reasons to say yes, and a single state figure hides both.
24,316 of 260,189 undergraduates and 43,875 of 147,971 graduate students. IPEDS reports no graduate enrolment for 10 of these institutions; their rows show a dash rather than a zero, because the file not carrying a number is not the same as the number being none.
What the state figure is an average of
The largest graduate enrolments in Massachusetts, each with its own non-resident share. Nothing here is excluded from the figures above. The point is to show what they are made of.
| Institution | Graduate students | Share of the state | Non-resident |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | 21,291 | 14.4% | 31.0% |
| Boston University | 17,968 | 12.1% | 35.7% |
| Northeastern University | 15,268 | 10.3% | 63.7% |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 7,874 | 5.3% | 33.3% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 7,344 | 5.0% | 40.8% |
| Tufts University | 6,397 | 4.3% | 17.2% |
No single institution decides this figure. The largest, Harvard University, holds 14.4% of the state’s graduate enrolment, and removing it moves the state share from 29.7% to 29.4%.
Practical training, and the other student visas
A student visa does not end at graduation. Optional Practical Training lets a graduate work on the same visa, and a STEM degree adds a further twenty-four months. It applies at both levels — a foreign undergraduate can take OPT as readily as a doctoral graduate — which is why the undergraduate share above is not the end of the story.
| Institution | OPT authorisations | National rank | STEM OPT authorisations | National rank | Students employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston University | 2,051 | 12 | 674 | 25 | 2,939 |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 716 | 64 | 341 | 64 | 1,152 |
| Harvard University | 1,427 | 22 | 621 | 30 | 2,366 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 788 | 59 | 417 | 38 | 1,205 |
Do not add these two columns together. A graduate who holds post-completion OPT and then a STEM extension in the same year appears in both, and the sum counts that person twice. They are authorisations, not people. Figures are for 2024, from SEVP’s top-100 and top-200 school lists — an institution outside those lists has no published figure, which is a fact about the list and never a zero.
J-1 physicians. Massachusetts hosted 640 J-1 physicians in graduate medical education in 2025. That list is published for the top twelve states only, so a state missing from it has no published figure.
Every institution
Largest first by total enrolment. A dash means the institution awards none of that degree, or that no federal research money was matched to it.
| Institution | City | Control | Enrolled | Graduate | Master’s | Non-res | Doctorates | Non-res | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston University | Boston | private nonprofit | 36,624 | 17,968 | 10,366 | 5,067 | 2,946 | 872 | $784.4m |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Amherst | public | 31,810 | 7,874 | 4,273 | 2,148 | 1,578 | 699 | $281.7m |
| Northeastern University | Boston | private nonprofit | 31,159 | 15,268 | 18,711 | 14,670 | 1,222 | 624 | $346.9m |
| Harvard University | Cambridge | private nonprofit | 30,386 | 21,291 | 5,571 | 1,928 | 3,667 | 1,223 | $1.49bn |
| University of Massachusetts-Lowell | Lowell | public | 16,770 | 4,642 | 2,542 | 661 | 609 | 258 | $120.7m |
| University of Massachusetts-Boston | Boston | public | 15,810 | 3,437 | 1,108 | 708 | 469 | 126 | $74.6m |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hill | private nonprofit | 15,280 | 5,197 | 1,000 | 484 | 722 | 215 | $96.3m |
| Tufts University | Medford | private nonprofit | 13,274 | 6,397 | 3,732 | 914 | 682 | 192 | $278.3m |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge | private nonprofit | 11,920 | 7,344 | 4,971 | 1,990 | 3,383 | 1,498 | $1.07bn |
| Bridgewater State University | Bridgewater | public | 9,550 | 1,378 | 151 | 43 | — | — | — |
| Berklee College of Music | Boston | private nonprofit | 8,448 | 840 | 878 | 365 | — | — | — |
| University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | North Dartmouth | public | 7,759 | 2,157 | 1,007 | 517 | 148 | 63 | $42.4m |
| Northeastern University Professional Programs | Boston | private nonprofit | 7,471 | 4,946 | 4,381 | 3,295 | — | — | — |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester | private nonprofit | 7,353 | 1,900 | 3,453 | 1,023 | 376 | 224 | $71.6m |
| Suffolk University | Boston | private nonprofit | 6,697 | 2,213 | 45 | 1 | 21 | 4 | $4.9m |
| Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | Boston | private nonprofit | 6,321 | 2,844 | 132 | 29 | 32 | 23 | — |
| Fitchburg State University | Fitchburg | public | 6,296 | 3,163 | 448 | 398 | — | — | — |
| Salem State University | Salem | public | 6,239 | 1,386 | 246 | 16 | — | — | — |
| Merrimack College | North Andover | private nonprofit | 5,688 | 1,489 | 372 | 26 | — | — | $2.9m |
| Emerson College | Boston | private nonprofit | 5,670 | 1,499 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Worcester State University | Worcester | public | 5,611 | 877 | 90 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Brandeis University | Waltham | private nonprofit | 5,302 | 1,627 | 1,478 | 605 | 385 | 116 | $107.1m |
| Bentley University | Waltham | private nonprofit | 5,264 | 914 | 455 | 209 | 19 | 7 | $4.6m |
| Simmons University | Boston | private nonprofit | 5,053 | 3,293 | 645 | 6 | 64 | 1 | — |
| North Shore Community College | Danvers | public | 4,833 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Westfield State University | Westfield | public | 4,555 | 767 | 165 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Endicott College | Beverly | private nonprofit | 4,254 | 1,078 | 272 | 17 | 99 | 1 | — |
| Clark University | Worcester | private nonprofit | 4,124 | 1,755 | 1,680 | 1,532 | 140 | 55 | $12.7m |
| Framingham State University | Framingham | public | 4,028 | 1,211 | 155 | 12 | — | — | — |
| Wentworth Institute of Technology | Boston | private nonprofit | 4,018 | 205 | 125 | 23 | — | — | — |
| Babson College | Wellesley | private nonprofit | 3,943 | 1,191 | 402 | 267 | — | — | $1.8m |
| Holyoke Community College | Holyoke | public | 3,706 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Western New England University | Springfield | private nonprofit | 3,574 | 990 | 397 | 134 | 31 | 7 | $1.2m |
| Mount Wachusett Community College | Gardner | public | 3,204 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lesley University | Cambridge | private nonprofit | 3,134 | 1,792 | 156 | 3 | 153 | 6 | — |
| Regis College | Weston | private nonprofit | 2,842 | 1,746 | 277 | 3 | 378 | 0 | — |
| Smith College | Northampton | private nonprofit | 2,830 | 324 | 15 | 3 | 44 | 3 | $7.4m |
| Springfield College | Springfield | private nonprofit | 2,785 | 861 | 93 | 17 | 29 | 4 | — |
| Bay Path University | Longmeadow | private nonprofit | 2,643 | 1,365 | 588 | 8 | — | — | — |
| Cape Cod Community College | West Barnstable | public | 2,604 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stonehill College | Easton | private nonprofit | 2,584 | 69 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wellesley College | Wellesley | private nonprofit | 2,418 | — | — | — | — | — | $7.0m |
| Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley | private nonprofit | 2,330 | 121 | — | — | — | — | $2.4m |
| Williams College | Williamstown | private nonprofit | 2,168 | 56 | — | — | — | — | $7.1m |
| American International College | Springfield | private nonprofit | 2,142 | 811 | 143 | 5 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Emmanuel College | Boston | private nonprofit | 2,059 | 86 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Assumption University | Worcester | private nonprofit | 2,046 | 358 | 173 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Hult International Business School | Cambridge | private nonprofit | 2,003 | 1,309 | 749 | 715 | — | — | — |
| Curry College | Milton | private nonprofit | 1,994 | 176 | 25 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Boston | public | 1,986 | 110 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cambridge College | Boston | private nonprofit | 1,952 | 1,235 | 232 | 5 | 44 | 2 | — |
| Amherst College | Amherst | private nonprofit | 1,910 | — | — | — | — | — | $8.7m |
| Gordon College | Wenham | private nonprofit | 1,610 | 317 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Berkshire Community College | Pittsfield | public | 1,572 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lasell University | Newton | private nonprofit | 1,527 | 344 | 25 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Fisher College | Boston | private nonprofit | 1,501 | 117 | 90 | 0 | — | — | — |
| MGH Institute of Health Professions | Boston | private nonprofit | 1,484 | 1,173 | 7 | 0 | 45 | 0 | $10.0m |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | Worcester | public | 1,394 | 1,394 | 46 | 3 | 266 | 70 | $349.6m |
| Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary | South Hamilton | private nonprofit | 1,373 | 1,373 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Massachusetts Maritime Academy | Buzzards Bay | public | 1,362 | 91 | 120 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Nichols College | Dudley | private nonprofit | 1,354 | 202 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Anna Maria College | Paxton | private nonprofit | 1,332 | 337 | 71 | 4 | — | — | — |
| College of Our Lady of the Elms | Chicopee | private nonprofit | 1,332 | 294 | 83 | 3 | — | — | — |
| New England Law-Boston | Boston | private nonprofit | 1,083 | 1,083 | — | — | — | — | — |
| William James College | Newton | private nonprofit | 951 | 915 | 660 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | North Adams | public | 933 | 97 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Boston Architectural College | Boston | private nonprofit | 787 | 481 | — | — | — | — | — |
| The New England Conservatory of Music | Boston | private nonprofit | 784 | 391 | — | — | 37 | 15 | — |
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | Boston | private nonprofit | 592 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| New England College of Optometry | Boston | private nonprofit | 529 | 529 | 34 | 15 | — | — | $3.6m |
| Springfield College-Regional, Online, and Continuing Education | Springfield | private nonprofit | 421 | 167 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin W Olin College of Engineering | Needham | private nonprofit | 402 | — | — | — | — | — | $1.8m |
| Longy School of Music of Bard College | Cambridge | private nonprofit | 318 | 284 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Massachusetts School of Law | Andover | private nonprofit | 284 | 284 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology | Brookline | private nonprofit | 199 | 135 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hebrew College | Newton | private nonprofit | 177 | 84 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc | Brookline | private nonprofit | 169 | 169 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Northpoint Bible College | Haverhill | private nonprofit | 128 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Saint John's Seminary | Brighton | private nonprofit | 120 | 96 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Conway School of Landscape Design | Northampton | private nonprofit | 18 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — |
| University of Massachusetts-Central Office | Boston | public | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025. Enrolment and federal money are the most recent year in the file. “Non-res” means a student here on a temporary visa, almost always F-1 or J-1. A green card holder is not counted in it.
How few institutions this is
Of the 81 institutions in Massachusetts, 28 award a research doctorate at all, and the largest two award 40.1% of them. A state’s graduate pipeline is a much smaller thing than its list of colleges.
| Institution | Research doctorates | Non-resident | Share | Share of the state’s doctorates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | 3,667 | 1,223 | 33.4% | 20.8% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3,383 | 1,498 | 44.3% | 19.2% |
| Boston University | 2,946 | 872 | 29.6% | 16.7% |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 1,578 | 699 | 44.3% | 9.0% |
| Northeastern University | 1,222 | 624 | 51.1% | 6.9% |
| Boston College | 722 | 215 | 29.8% | 4.1% |
| Tufts University | 682 | 192 | 28.2% | 3.9% |
| University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 609 | 258 | 42.4% | 3.5% |
| University of Massachusetts-Boston | 469 | 126 | 26.9% | 2.7% |
| Brandeis University | 385 | 116 | 30.1% | 2.2% |
| Regis College | 378 | 0 | 0.0% | 2.1% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 376 | 224 | 59.6% | 2.1% |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | 266 | 70 | 26.3% | 1.5% |
| Lesley University | 153 | 6 | 3.9% | 0.9% |
| University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 148 | 63 | 42.6% | 0.8% |
| Clark University | 140 | 55 | 39.3% | 0.8% |
| Endicott College | 99 | 1 | 1.0% | 0.6% |
| Simmons University | 64 | 1 | 1.6% | 0.4% |
| MGH Institute of Health Professions | 45 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| Smith College | 44 | 3 | 6.8% | 0.3% |
| Cambridge College | 44 | 2 | 4.5% | 0.3% |
| The New England Conservatory of Music | 37 | 15 | 40.5% | 0.2% |
| Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | 32 | 23 | 71.9% | 0.2% |
| Western New England University | 31 | 7 | 22.6% | 0.2% |
| Springfield College | 29 | 4 | 13.8% | 0.2% |
| Suffolk University | 21 | 4 | 19.0% | 0.1% |
| Bentley University | 19 | 7 | 36.8% | 0.1% |
| American International College | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
The foreign share of graduate students, where the survey reaches
The NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates asks institutions directly, and it covers 28 of the 81 institutions in Massachusetts. It is a different measure from the degree counts above: enrolled students rather than degrees awarded.
| Institution | Doctoral students foreign | Master’s students foreign |
|---|---|---|
| University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 76.1% | 77.6% |
| Clark University | 74.6% | 92.3% |
| Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | 67.6% | 62.4% |
| University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 63.8% | 32.3% |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 56.4% | 49.2% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 55.9% | 55.7% |
| Northeastern University | 53.6% | 78.6% |
| Boston College | 49.9% | 40.7% |
| University of Massachusetts-Boston | 44.1% | 61.4% |
| Boston University | 42.9% | 46.3% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 40.0% | 39.2% |
| Harvard University | 36.3% | 57.2% |
| Brandeis University | 34.6% | 57.2% |
| Tufts University | 33.9% | 34.4% |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | 27.0% | 11.1% |
| Western New England University | 25.0% | 88.4% |
| Springfield College | 18.8% | 9.1% |
| Suffolk University | 5.6% | 26.9% |
| Bridgewater State University | —% | 14.3% |
| Salem State University | —% | 8.0% |
| Worcester State University | —% | 1.4% |
| Simmons University | —% | 11.1% |
| Endicott College | 0.0% | 15.4% |
| Framingham State University | —% | 45.5% |
| Smith College | —% | 14.3% |
| American International College | —% | 7.4% |
| MGH Institute of Health Professions | —% | 3.0% |
| New England College of Optometry | —% | 20.0% |
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
The highest foreign share of doctoral students in the state, at 76.1%. It is not the largest institution here and it is not the one with the most federal money. Size and share are different questions, and a state page that ranked only by size would not show this.
What the state itself puts in
State appropriations per full-time-equivalent student, from the SHEEO finance survey, against the change in the foreign share of graduate enrolment over the same window.
| Measure | First year | Last year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| State appropriations per FTE student | $9,746 | $16,226 | +66.5% |
| Foreign share of graduate enrolment | 9.3% | 19.5% | +10.1 pts |
These two rows move for their own reasons. Nothing here shows that one caused the other, and the page does not say it did.
Department by department
The dissertation corpus reaches 4 institutions in this state, covering 108 departments. 33 of them are majority non-resident.
| Institution | Department | Doctorates | Non-resident | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston U | Financial Mathematics | 15 | 15 | 100.0% |
| Boston U | Systems Engineering | 48 | 38 | 79.2% |
| Boston U | Computer Engineering, General | 33 | 26 | 78.8% |
| Boston U | Computer Science | 71 | 51 | 71.8% |
| Boston U | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 105 | 70 | 66.7% |
| Boston U | Physics, General | 98 | 56 | 57.1% |
| Boston U | Mechanical Engineering | 97 | 54 | 55.7% |
| Boston U | Statistics, General | 18 | 10 | 55.6% |
| Boston U | Materials Engineering | 39 | 18 | 46.2% |
| Boston U | Mathematics, General | 48 | 19 | 39.6% |
| Boston U | Chemistry, General | 118 | 39 | 33.1% |
| Boston U | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 165 | 54 | 32.7% |
| Boston U | Bioinformatics | 71 | 23 | 32.4% |
| Boston U | Biochemistry | 19 | 6 | 31.6% |
| Boston U | Geology/Earth Science, General | 33 | 10 | 30.3% |
| Boston U | Biostatistics | 56 | 16 | 28.6% |
| Boston U | Anatomy | 28 | 7 | 25.0% |
| Boston U | Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences, Other | 33 | 8 | 24.2% |
| Boston U | Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 62 | 12 | 19.4% |
| Boston U | Pathology/Experimental Pathology | 21 | 4 | 19.0% |
| Boston U | Astronomy | 32 | 6 | 18.8% |
| Boston U | Applied Psychology | 23 | 4 | 17.4% |
| Boston U | Epidemiology | 48 | 6 | 12.5% |
| Boston U | Molecular Medicine | 24 | 2 | 8.3% |
| Boston U | Psychology, General | 89 | 7 | 7.9% |
| Boston U | Neuroscience | 81 | 6 | 7.4% |
| Boston U | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 74 | 5 | 6.8% |
| Boston U | Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | 24 | 1 | 4.2% |
| Boston U | Pharmacology | 46 | 1 | 2.2% |
| Harvard | Mathematics, General | 83 | 55 | 66.3% |
| Harvard | Statistics, General | 59 | 38 | 64.4% |
| Harvard | Engineering Science | 201 | 109 | 54.2% |
| Harvard | Applied Mathematics, General | 44 | 21 | 47.7% |
| Harvard | Computer Science | 98 | 46 | 46.9% |
| Harvard | Chemistry, General | 187 | 79 | 42.2% |
| Harvard | Atomic/Molecular Physics | 27 | 11 | 40.7% |
| Harvard | Physics, General | 262 | 105 | 40.1% |
| Harvard | Engineering Physics/Applied Physics | 153 | 61 | 39.9% |
| Harvard | Epidemiology | 191 | 68 | 35.6% |
| Harvard | Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 79 | 28 | 35.4% |
| Harvard | Astrophysics | 63 | 20 | 31.7% |
| Harvard | Developmental Biology and Embryology | 16 | 5 | 31.2% |
| Harvard | Systematic Biology/Biological Systematics | 82 | 25 | 30.5% |
| Harvard | Planetary Astronomy and Science | 68 | 20 | 29.4% |
| Harvard | Biostatistics | 104 | 30 | 28.8% |
| Harvard | Educational Psychology | 18 | 5 | 27.8% |
| Harvard | Biochemistry | 153 | 40 | 26.1% |
| Harvard | Immunology | 86 | 22 | 25.6% |
| Harvard | Behavioral Sciences | 29 | 7 | 24.1% |
| Harvard | Biomedical Sciences, General | 315 | 74 | 23.5% |
| Harvard | Virology | 85 | 20 | 23.5% |
| Harvard | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 119 | 27 | 22.7% |
| Harvard | Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other | 59 | 13 | 22.0% |
| Harvard | Microbiology and Immunology | 15 | 3 | 20.0% |
| Harvard | Biophysics | 74 | 13 | 17.6% |
| Harvard | Experimental Psychology | 96 | 15 | 15.6% |
| Harvard | Biotechnology | 26 | 4 | 15.4% |
| Harvard | Neurobiology and Anatomy | 145 | 22 | 15.2% |
| Harvard | Genome Sciences/Genomics | 33 | 2 | 6.1% |
| UMass Amherst | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 98 | 84 | 85.7% |
| UMass Amherst | Industrial Engineering | 19 | 12 | 63.2% |
| UMass Amherst | Nutrition Sciences | 16 | 10 | 62.5% |
| UMass Amherst | Chemistry, General | 147 | 89 | 60.5% |
| UMass Amherst | Mechanical Engineering | 53 | 32 | 60.4% |
| UMass Amherst | Physics, General | 69 | 41 | 59.4% |
| UMass Amherst | Chemical Engineering | 74 | 43 | 58.1% |
| UMass Amherst | Mathematics, General | 52 | 30 | 57.7% |
| UMass Amherst | Computer Science | 168 | 95 | 56.5% |
| UMass Amherst | Civil Engineering, General | 76 | 41 | 53.9% |
| UMass Amherst | Polymer/Plastics Engineering | 132 | 67 | 50.8% |
| UMass Amherst | Botany/Plant Biology | 22 | 10 | 45.5% |
| UMass Amherst | Astronomy | 18 | 7 | 38.9% |
| UMass Amherst | Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 75 | 29 | 38.7% |
| UMass Amherst | Microbiology, General | 22 | 7 | 31.8% |
| UMass Amherst | Geology/Earth Science, General | 36 | 9 | 25.0% |
| UMass Amherst | Evolutionary Biology | 39 | 7 | 17.9% |
| UMass Amherst | Neuroscience | 29 | 5 | 17.2% |
| UMass Amherst | Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology | 31 | 5 | 16.1% |
| UMass Amherst | Psychology, General | 66 | 10 | 15.2% |
| UMass Amherst | Epidemiology | 16 | 0 | 0.0% |
| UMass Amherst | School Psychology | 25 | 0 | 0.0% |
| MIT | Computer and Information Sciences, General | 56 | 41 | 73.2% |
| MIT | Transportation and Highway Engineering | 26 | 18 | 69.2% |
| MIT | Civil Engineering, General | 54 | 37 | 68.5% |
| MIT | Geophysics and Seismology | 25 | 17 | 68.0% |
| MIT | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 425 | 251 | 59.1% |
| MIT | Operations Research | 107 | 63 | 58.9% |
| MIT | Materials Engineering | 261 | 142 | 54.4% |
| MIT | Mathematics, General | 185 | 100 | 54.1% |
| MIT | Computer Science | 359 | 192 | 53.5% |
| MIT | Meteorology | 23 | 12 | 52.2% |
| MIT | Mechanical Engineering | 468 | 243 | 51.9% |
| MIT | Physics, General | 300 | 148 | 49.3% |
| MIT | Nuclear Engineering | 122 | 60 | 49.2% |
| MIT | Systems Engineering | 64 | 30 | 46.9% |
| MIT | Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, General | 193 | 84 | 43.5% |
| MIT | Chemical Engineering | 288 | 113 | 39.2% |
| MIT | Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering | 66 | 25 | 37.9% |
| MIT | Cognitive Science, General | 44 | 15 | 34.1% |
| MIT | Planetary Astronomy and Science | 15 | 5 | 33.3% |
| MIT | Chemistry, General | 354 | 117 | 33.1% |
| MIT | Neuroscience | 76 | 23 | 30.3% |
| MIT | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 308 | 76 | 24.7% |
| MIT | Computational Biology | 47 | 11 | 23.4% |
| MIT | Science, Technology and Society | 37 | 8 | 21.6% |
| MIT | Oceanography, Chemical and Physical | 69 | 14 | 20.3% |
| MIT | Geology/Earth Science, General | 53 | 9 | 17.0% |
| MIT | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 330 | 52 | 15.8% |
From the dissertation corpus, which is built from what universities publish about their own graduates. It covers the institutions on this site, not every institution in the state, so it is a floor.
What is not published for a state this size
Two of the measures this site uses elsewhere do not exist at this scale, and the reason is the same in both cases: the agency publishes a ranked extract rather than the whole file.
- Practical training is not published here. SEVP releases the top 100 and top 200 schools for OPT and STEM OPT, not every school. An institution outside those lists has no published figure at all. Its absence is a fact about the list, not about the institution, and it must never be read as a zero.
- Student visa counts are not published by state. DHS reports SEVIS records nationally and names a few states per region in its commentary. For most states it publishes a percentage change and no count, so the number of foreign students physically in a state cannot be read off the federal release.
- Enrolment is the measure that does exist. IPEDS asks every institution directly, which is why this page is built from it. It counts students enrolled, not visas issued, and the two are different questions.
Method and limits
- Non-resident means here on a temporary visa. IPEDS defines it as a person “who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely.” A green card holder is therefore never counted here. Neither is a refugee or an asylee. Those students are reported in the race and ethnicity categories alongside citizens. For students the category is overwhelmingly F-1 and J-1.
- It is not ethnicity and not country of origin. A US-born citizen of any background is never non-resident. The status is recorded when the student enrols, for the enrolment figures, and when the degree is awarded, for the degree counts. These files cannot be split any other way.
- Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025, because a single year at a small institution moves on one student.
- Enrolment and awards are different measures and will not agree. One counts people on a given day; the other counts degrees conferred over five years.
- Federal money is matched to a campus, and a system that reports centrally can carry money its branches spend.
- This page shows composition, not displacement. It records who received the degrees. It does not show that anyone was kept out, and nothing here should be read that way.
Built by scripts/build_state_pages.py from
institution_profiles.json,
state_funding_and_enrolment.json
and university_distribution.json.
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