12 Facts About Simmons University

Simmons University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Simmons University enrolls approximately 1, 736 undergraduates and 4, 527 graduate students.

Simmons University was founded in 1899 with a bequest by John Simmons University, a wealthy clothing manufacturer in Boston.

Simmons University founded the college based on the belief that women ought to live independently by offering a liberal arts education for undergraduate women to integrate into professional work experience.

Simmons University is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium, which includes Emmanuel College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

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Furthermore, Simmons University was one of the few private colleges not to impose admission quotas on Jewish students for the first half of the 1900s.

In 2014, Simmons University College teamed up with for-profit online program manager 2U, a deal that would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for the school.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Simmons University extended its Spring 2020 break to March 23 and then resumed instruction on a remote online-only basis.

Simmons University is divided into two campuses located in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Simmons University reorganized its academic structure in 2018 to foster interdisciplinary learning and cross-departmental collaboration.

Simmons University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Simmons University athletes won some of the early national intercollegiate women's tennis championships in singles and doubles (Dorrance Chase, 1930 and 1932, with Sachs).