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The University of Massachusetts, comprising UMass has 90,000 students, faculty and staff. students, faculty and staff, is a global research university that extends the promise of American public higher education to thousands of international students and attracts faculty members from across the globe.
We welcomed our first international student to UMass in 1870, and today we have 7,537 international students, all of whom are an essential part of our identity as a world-class public research university dedicated to advancing knowledge and transforming lives.
At UMass, we actively recruit the most innovative faculty, the brightest minds and the most promising entrepreneurs from around the world. We invite them to enrich our campuses with their knowledge and their perspectives, to spark the economy with cutting-edge ideas and inventions, and to work on collaborative research that solves global problems like HIV-AIDS and Ebola.
International students not only enrich our campuses; they are enriched by the opportunity to learn from and work with our distinguished faculty, who are a driving force for revolutionary research, development and discovery. In fact, UMass faculty include a Nobel Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, members of the National Academy of Sciences, an American Book Award winner and Fulbright, Guggenheim, MacArthur and Mellon fellows, making them some of the brightest minds in the world.
Because we are firmly committed to the quality of the international student experience at UMass, all of our campuses offer resources to ensure that international students have the support they need while living and learning in the U.S.
