Skip to main content

Location

UMass Dartmouth is the ideal location for your college education.

Massachusetts is the seventh safest state in the nation. Picture yourself here at UMass Dartmouth.
Plan your visit today.

Space to learn, live, and lead

710 acres that inspire

Our campus offers room to think, move, and grow. With wooded trails, ponds, athletic fields, and new facilities for dining and residence life, UMass Dartmouth blends open space with modern campus living.

UMass Dartmouth quad, fitness center and library

Top left: campus quad. Bottom left: fitness center. Right: Claire T. Carney Library.

Perfectly positioned in Southeastern Massachusetts

UMass Dartmouth sits at the center of the SouthCoast—where coastal beauty, thriving cities, and small-town charm come together. From campus, you’re minutes from beaches and trails, and within easy reach of Boston, Providence, and Cape Cod.

Downtown New Bedford, MA
5 minutes off the highway

UMass Dartmouth is just off Interstate 195, on the beautiful SouthCoast—home to quaint New England towns and thriving, opportunity-rich cities.

Students at Horseneck Beach
15 minutes to the ocean

Whether you’re into walking the beach, riding the waves, or saving the sea—we’ve got the water you want.

A campus designed to inspire ⭐

1 famous architect

Modernist architect Paul Rudolph designed UMass Dartmouth’s campus to inspire bold thinking and creativity. His vision lives on in our striking architecture and in the spirit of our students—innovative, determined, and forward-looking.

Learn more about the architecture of UMass Dartmouth.

UMass Dartmouth architecture details
30 minutes to the Cape

On the way to Cape Cod? We invite you to visit UMassD, and learn more about the state’s leading research institution south of Boston.

60 minutes to Boston

By bus, car, or train: it’s easy to get to Boston, the “Hub” of Massachusetts history and politics, art and culture, industry and business.

Back to top of screen