EMERSON COLLEGE F-13

120 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116-4624
Tel: (617)824-8500; Admissions: (617)824-8600; Fax: (617)824-8609; E-mail: admission@emerson.edu; Web Site: http://www.emerson.edu/

Description: Independent, comprehensive, coed. Awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Founded 1880. Setting: urban campus. Endowment: $33.6 million. Educational spending 2002-03: $6965 per student. Total enrollment: 4,385. Faculty: 345 (136 full-time, 209 Part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 15:1. 4,321 applied, 48% were admitted. 34% from top 10% of their high school class, 77% from top quarter, 98% from top half. 11 valedictorians. Full-time: 2,947 students, 60% women, 40% men. Part-time: 454 students, 71% women, 29% men. Students come from 48 states and territories, 59 other countries, 65% from out-of-state, 0.3% Native American, 5% Hispanic, 2% black, 4% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 4% international, 5% 25 or older, 45% live on campus, 6% transferred in. Retention: 83% of 2003 full-time freshmen returned. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: visual/performing arts; communications/communication technologies; business/marketing; English. Core. Calendar: semesters. Services for LD students, advanced placement, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study. Study abroad program.

Entrance Requirements: Options: Peterson's Universal Application, electronic application, early admission, early action, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, 2 recommendations, SAT I or ACT. Required for some: interview, audition, essay, portfolio, or resume for performing arts applicants. Entrance: very difficult. Application deadlines: 1/15, 11/1 for early action. Notification: 4/1, 12/15 for early action.

Costs Per Year: Application fee: $55. Comprehensive fee: $32,521 includes full-time tuition ($22,144), mandatory fees ($549), and college room and board ($9828). College room only: $5850. Part-time tuition: $692 per credit hour.

Collegiate Environment: Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 60 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities; 4% of eligible men and 4% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: EIV (Emerson Independent Video), WERS 88.9 FM, Musical Theatre Society, Berkeley Beacon, International Student Association. Major annual events: EVVY's, Spring Musical, Hand Me Down Night. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 1,207 college housing spaces available; all were occupied in 2002-03. Freshmen given priority for college housing. Option: coed housing available. Emerson Library plus 1 other with 141,715 books, 11,056 microform titles, 679 serials, 8,597 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2002-03: $2.6 million. 296 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment: See Boston University.