Suffolk University

Suffolk University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. With 7,560 students (includes all campuses, 7,379 at the Boston location alone), it is the eighth largest university in metropolitan Boston. It is categorized as a Doctoral Research University by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. It was founded as a law school in 1906 and named after its location in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The university's notable alumni include mayors, dozens of U.S. federal and state judges and United States members of Congress.

The university, located at the downtown edge of the historic Beacon Hill neighborhood, is coeducational and comprises the Suffolk University Law School, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Sawyer Business School.

The Princeton Review recently ranked the Sawyer Business School as "One of Top 15 in Global Management" and its entrepreneurship program is ranked among the top 25 in the U.S. The Princeton Review, also currently ranks some of its MBA programs among the top 50 business programs in the nation. The 2015 edition of U.S. News publication ranked Suffolk Law School 6th in the United States for its Legal Writing, 13th for its Alternative Dispute Resolution program, and 20th for legal clinics. 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 and given speeches at the university such as John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, and former U.S. President George H.W. Bush.

Majors:

• Arts
• Drama and Theatre Production
• Film and Video Studies
• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Interior Design
• Business
• Accounting
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Management Sciences and Information Systems
• Marketing
• Humanities
• Advertising
• Art History
• Communications
• Economics
• English
• French Language and Literature
• German Language and Literature
• History
• Journalism
• Liberal Arts and Humanities
• Philosophy
• Political Science and Government
• Psychology
• Radio and Television
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Criminology
• Science, Technology, and Math
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Environmental Science
• Mathematics
• Physics

Campus

The main campus in downtown Boston is situated on well-known Beacon Hill, adjacent to the Massachusetts State House and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Up until 1995, Suffolk was a commuter-only school. Today, there are four coed residence halls, housing over 65% of freshman, and a total of 24% of the entire undergraduate population:

• Smith Hall
• Nathan R. Miller Hall
• 10 West
• Modern Theatre

The residence hall at 150 Tremont Street, renamed Smith Hall in 2018, 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 Tremont have cafeterias. Students living at 10 West/Modern Theater can eat at 150 Tremont. Suffolk University occasionally leases additional properties (such as the Hyatt & Holiday Inn Beacon Hill). If leased, those locations house freshman students.

The Modern Theatre 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 Theatre (Boston).

The University also leases residential space for students at 1047 Commonwealth Avenue, which features micro-apartments for 2-3 students. Housing students from Suffolk as well as other colleges and universities nearby, the residence hall is a 25-minute ride from Suffolk's campus on public transit on the T's Green Line. In the fall of 2020, the University plans to stop using 1047 and begin housing those students closer to campus in the Ames Building at One Court Street, which it purchased in the fall of 2019.

In addition to its main campus in Boston, there is a satellite campus in Madrid, Spain.