Overview
Emmanuel College's Classrooms Extend Outward Into a World of Service and Study-Abroad Programs
Emmanuel College is located in Boston, Massachusetts. Its neighbors include a world-class medical center, two major art museums, and Fenway Park. Emmanuel College's unique location allows students and faculty members the opportunities to explore real-world experiences through internships, research, and strategic partnerships within the Longwood Medical area and the city of Boston. In fact, the college's online career center provides access to more than 1,700 local internships. Emmanuel also believes in the transformative power of education through service learning, travel, and opportunities to study abroad.
Including shorter programs for those who are unsure of being away for so long, Emmanuel students can spend a year, semester, summer, or just a school break away from campus. They have more than 550 suggested programs in over seventy different countries from which to choose. The faculty and advisers at Emmanuel work closely with students to determine the best study-abroad strategy given a student's major requirements and other academic goals.
Boston is both a backdrop and an extended classroom for Emmanuel's students. Emmanuel and five neighboring colleges formed the Colleges of the Fenway (COF) collaboration. One benefit of COF is that beginning in the second semester of their freshman year, Emmanuel's students can cross-register for up to two courses each semester at a COF institution at no additional cost. The college offers students an educational experience that is difficult to rival in any other school of its size. The educational resources, vibrant student life, and study-abroad opportunities at Emmanuel create opportunities for students to realize their full potential both professionally and personally.
Emmanuel College Offers a Vibrant Student Life Driven by Numerous Student Organizations and Activities
With more than eighty different co-curricular clubs, activities, and student organizations on campus, the community is alive with a strong sense of mission; a vibrant, confident faith; and a joyful spirit. Emmanuel students are challenged to act, to lead, and to give generously to others. Community service is a hallmark of the Emmanuel experience, and many student organizations actively support the community through their work and programs. About 85 percent of Emmanuel's students participate in community service during the year.
Emmanuel's NCAA Division III athletics program gives every recruit a chance to make his or her mark. Emmanuel offers fourteen varsity teams. Its strong intramural sports program keeps everyone in the game. The athletics program focuses on the development of the whole person, and the fun and exercise that intramural sports offers is one of the key components of an enjoyable campus experience. Through Emmanuel's collaboration with Boston's Colleges of the Fenway (COF), intramural sports opportunities are extended to such varied activities as flag football, tennis, dodge ball, inner tube water polo, bowling, and even the XBOX 360 Halo Tournament.
Emmanuel students have the opportunity to live on campus all four years. With options to live in one of the four on-campus residence halls, students enjoy being able to meet new people and having the convenience of being close to class-with no commute time. Sharing and learning together within the comfortable environment of Emmanuel College often leads to students developing life-long bonds with their classmates and the friends they made in college.
Liberal Arts and Sciences Coupled With a Diverse Student Body Produce Expanded Rich Advantages
Complimenting a strong core curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences, Emmanuel's proud tradition since 1919, the college has a diverse student body with over 1,600 undergraduate students from about thirty countries and thirty states. Emmanuel offers opportunities for exploration and research in more than twenty-five areas of study ranging from the natural and life sciences, psychology, English/communication, and global studies to art, education, political science, and history. In addition, Emmanuel students may pursue an individually tailored major created from among the school's varied course offerings.
The liberal arts and sciences programs that represent the foundation of the educational experience at Emmanuel help to prepare students for a wide range of professional endeavors beyond college. The school's location in Boston is also an advantage when it comes to placing liberal arts and sciences graduates in positions of importance with leading employers and companies.
The diverse student body at Emmanuel College is another one of the school's inherent advantages. Just as the college believes that education opens doors, empowers, and transforms, it also believes that the world of ideas demands diversity. The personal growth and sense of community fostered at Emmanuel contributes to the overall fulfillment of the students that move through the halls of the school. And all of that is polished and hones by the richness and cultural offerings of the Boston area, with its 250,000 college students at institutions across the city.
