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Welcome to UMass Dartmouth! Our first stop is The Grove! As the central hub of a $134 million complex, this new dining area with seating for 800 serves cuisine from around the world along with vegetarian and vegan options. Whatever your taste buds are craving, your meal plan comes with meal swipes and Corsair cash, making it easy to grab a bite here or at one of our other dining locations. Did we mention the indoor fire pit?? In case this is your first visit, here are some tips to help you get started:
-Click on the forward-facing arrow to start walking ahead or select the "Next" button to jump to the next destination.
-If you already know where you want to go, simply select that location from the list on the sidebar OR click directly on the map below.
-And remember to explore each destination in more detail by clicking the interactive icons included throughout each location.
First-year Quad
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Step outside to our first-year quad. Flanked by our1,200-bed residence halls that opened in 2020, this Quad is the best new hang out spot on campus. There's plenty of outdoor seating, so you can eat outside, or toss a frisbee or ball with friends.
Spruce Community Kitchen
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Imagine cooking up a great Friday night dinner for your friends, or learning to make sushi in the spacious and fully-equipped community kitchen. Whether you live in Balsam Hall, or it's mirror-image twin Spruce Hall, the kitchen is open!
Spruce 170
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Take a peek at one of our rooms in Spruce Hall, where you'll live with students who share the same academic, social, or cultural interests as you in one of our themed engagement communities. Both Balsam Hall and Spruce Hall boast fully-furnished single and double rooms for over 1,200 students. Is that your comfy-looking body pillow on the bed?
Spruce Bathroom
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Each and every bathroom in these new residence halls is designated gender-neutral and is ADA-accessible.
Spruce Lounge area 1—2nd floor
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Every floor in Balsam Hall and Spruce Hall has multiple, large lounge spaces. Here's where students hang out, study, and hold meetings for some of the over one-hundred-twenty student-run clubs and orgs on campus. This lounge looks out onto some of the 710 wooded acres of our campus.
Spruce Lounge area 2—2nd floor
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Balsam Hall and Spruce Hall were built with your academic and social success in mind with study areas, performance practice areas, and access to high-speed wifi throughout the community. This spacious second-floor lounge looks out over the first-year quad. Enjoy the view, meet up with friends, or you can even monitor your laundry from here using an app. Did we mention laundry is free?
Fitness Center
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And this is our fitness center! As a UMassD student, you'll enjoy a free membership. With over 100 hours of classes offered and open pool and gym hours, you'll have plenty of chances to get a workout in.
In addition to our Division III athletic teams, we offer intramural sports and club teams. Athletes, you'll have access to an athlete-only weight room.
CVPA Atrium
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The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is a comprehensive college for art, design, and music, providing students a complete art school education within a university experience. We emphasize learning through social and community engagement and CVPA faculty encourage and support cross-disciplinary study and collaborative research. The CVPA gallery is where we showcase and celebrate the talents and creativity of the CVPA community members.
Main Quad
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As you walk around campus, you'll quickly realize our unique architecture sets us apart. The style is called Brutalism and it uses bare materials and geometry in ways that poetically combine utilitarianism and mathematical beauty. The campus itself becomes a remarkable and iconic embodiment of our search for answers rooted in the quality of research.
Library Living Room
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The Claire T. Carney Library Living room is a place for students to study, hang out, eat, and reduce stress. Grab Starbucks before you hit the books, meet up with friends, or head to class.
Library Study Space
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We're in the Claire T. Carney Library. On the first floor you'll find our Library Living Room, Circulation and Reserves Desk (where you can borrow a laptop or calculator), two computer labs, a silent study room, and the Grand Reading Room. Up one floor you'll find three lecture halls, another computer lab, and group study rooms. The third and fifth floors, where we are now, boast bright study spaces and house the quarter-of-a-million books we have here at UMASS Dartmouth. The fourth floor is home to our CITS services—that's where you'll get help with any technology issues.
All students have access to librarians that work with every college on campus.
Charlton Learning Pavillion Atrium
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Our Charlton College of Business Learning Pavillion is a space that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship by promoting collaboration between students, faculty, staff and the SouthCoast community. Ranked the second-highest among public business schools in Massachusetts, Charlton is one of the fastest-rising business schools in the nation. The Bloomberg Trading Terminals provide real-time access to financial markets to help students develop analytical skills and prepare for jobs in finance.
Engineering Classroom (SENG)
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All College of Engineering undergraduate programs are ABET accredited. During their senior year, students in the College of Engineering complete a capstone project where they work with a company or agency to create a new product or solution to a real-life problem. These projects range from creating a new software program to developing a converter to harvest ocean wave energy. To prepare for this kind of real-world project, engineering students do hands-on work in the labs, get personalized attention in the classroom, and have the opportunity to participate in research.
The STEM Learning Lab is a free tutoring center for all students who need extra help in the STEM fields. The tutors are students who earned an A in the class you are requesting help in.
Nursing Assessment Lab (DION)
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The upgraded and renovated DION building is where you'll find our College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Our Nursing program is a direct entry, four-year experience. You will learn in our skills, simulation, and assessment labs that offer a realistic stage for learning and clinical practice and in clinical placements at area hospitals and health care centers starting in your sophomore year. Our seniors complete a capstone course and are mentored by RNs at local hospitals and community clinical agencies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Our 2023 pass rate on the NCLEX exam was 96%. DION is also home to our Medical Laboratory Science Department where you'll study the science behind the medicine. We recently added advanced technologies to our laboratory spaces that enable our students to use equipment and methodologies used in Massachusetts' expanding life sciences sector. MedLab Science perfectly pairs with our Pre-Med/Pre-Health Advising program. Med Lab Science students complete a 3-month mentorship and our recent grads have 100% graduation and job placement rates
LARTS by Ivy wall
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The College of Arts & Sciences is the largest college at UMassD. But because we have a 15:1 Student to faculty ratio, you'll have the opportunity to get to know your professors, get involved in research, and network for internships.
Study abroad opportunities are available for every major. Many of our students take advantage of this affordable option
Writing and Multiliteracy Center
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In our LARTS Learning Commons you'll find computers, printers, and group study booths. Our Reading and Writing Center is located just one floor below, and our Multi-literacy Communications Center offers help with essays and lab reports. You can walk in, make an appointment, or take advantage of our online paper review service.
Campus Center
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The MacLean Campus Center is a hub of activity where you'll find the Campus Services Center, Campus Store, food court, Main Auditorium, SAIL office, an ATM, and more. You can pick up your mail, grab a coffee at Dunkin', shop for Arnie Corsair swag in the campus store, or play a game of pool.
School for Marine Science & Technology
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Located on Clark's Cove in New Bedford, right down the road from our main campus, graduate students at UMass Dartmouth's School for Marine Science & Technology address complex marine science research questions as they pursue master's and doctoral degrees. (39)
Our two facilities, totaling 96,000 square feet, boast two seawater labs, one of the only acoustic-optic test tanks on the east coast, conference facilities, a plastics biodegradability lab, a research pier, and state of the art tech.
UMass Law
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We're proud to say that UMass Law is the commonwealth's only public law school. We provide an excellent, affordable, and accessible legal education that prepares you to practice in any field of law. Many students at UMass Law participate in the Public Interest Law Fellowship program which provides a 50% scholarship in exchange for practicing public interest law for four years after graduation. We offer many flexible programs including a full-time and two part-time pathways leading to your JD degree; joint degree programs like our JD-MBA, JD-MPP, and JD-MSW; as well as our robust 3+ 3 programs with many public and private colleges and universities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Welcome Center
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When you're ready to see campus in person, we'll be here in the welcome center preparing a student-led tour of housing, dining, and academic buildings. Admissions counselors are on hand to get you up to speed on the admissions process, housing, financial aid, academics, and of course, to answer your questions.
