Expand your knowledge through cutting-edge research & enrich your community through creative enterprise.

UML student, Jordan Knight, Janson Borowko and Clark Lacossade by Phil Vassar's piano during sound check before the concert.

World-Ready Education

Through effective classroom engagement, research opportunities working with our distinguished faculty and a range of other experiential learning opportunities, students emerge from our degree programs equipped with the skills, insights and perspective needed to achieve success in their careers & improve their communities.

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Advanced Study Opportunities

Our graduate degree & certificate programs give students the skills and knowledge to assume leadership roles in business, research, education, government and community organizations. Through our accelerated “bachelor's to master's” programs, students may earn dual credits that can be applied to both undergraduate & graduate degrees.

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Cutting-edge Research & Creative Activity

Our faculty includes nationally and internationally recognized researchers, scholars and creative artists engaged in developing new knowledge and contributing to the cultural fabric of our world. Our college’s research and cultural centers serve as hubs for scholarship and creative activity, and provide ample opportunities for student engagement.

By the Numbers

  • $4.6M
    in external research funding for 2022
  • 84.4%
    Freshmen Retention Rate
  • 70+
    Music concerts throughout the year
  • 11
    Research and Engagement Centers
  • 230
    Full-time Faculty
  • 12
    Academic Departments
  • 32
    Percentage of degrees awarded to FAHSS students in 2014-15
  • 30
    Musical ensembles
  • 2
    Campus art galleries

Student Profiles

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Melisa Hussain '21
English

Melisa Hussain’s experience as a visibly Muslim teenager inspired her honors thesis.

I want to create that critical research we need to make our lives better – and America better.
Read More About Melisa Hussain 
Nick Jarek adjusts a video camera in a digital media studio at UMass Lowell
Nick Jarek '23
Digital Media

A summer co-op job with the DifferenceMaker program gave Nick Jarek a wider lens on his future career.

I love it here. The people I’ve met are so interested in helping me succeed.
Read More About Nick Jarek 
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Nicholas Abourizk '20
Theatre Arts

Nick Abourizk started college with plans to pursue a biology degree – but he couldn’t deny his passion for acting. An Oprah Winfrey Scholarship affirmed his decision to switch his major to Theatre Arts.

To get a scholarship while pursuing a degree in the arts is really validating.
Read More About Nicholas Abourizk 
Jared Socolow meets with Associate Teaching Professor Mary Duell in her office.
Jared Socolow '20
Psychology

Jared Socolow turned his own struggles into a research project that he will present at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science.

I like to get out of my comfort zone and challenge myself.
Read More About Jared Socolow 
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Malcolm Schrafft '22
Music and Theatre Arts

Honors student Malcolm Schrafft studied his twin passions: music and theater.

I had all that energy to be so engaged in everything.
Read More About Malcolm Schrafft 

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FAHSS News

  • RadSci sculpture Steve Snay

    Science Meets Art with Radiation-Themed Sculpture Contest

    In partnership with the Radiation Safety Office, Radiological Sciences in the Department of Physics and Applied Physics and Art & Design Assoc. Prof. Yuko Oda’s Sculpture III class, students competed in a radiation-themed sculpture contest.
    Featured Story
  • A person holds a gun with a carnation flower in the barrel overlooking a crowd.

    From Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution,’ Democracy Blooms

    To mark the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, UMass Lowell’s Saab Center for Portuguese Studies and Department of World Languages & Cultures is hosting a colloquium featuring leading scholars and a screening of the film “April’s Captains.”
    Featured Story
  • Biology major Naomi Okeke at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios

    Grant Gives Students Paid Professional Experience at Nonprofits

    A three-year, $140,000 grant from the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation is paying up to 12 students each semester to provide support to Lowell nonprofits – and paying for staff from 60 nonprofits to take an intensive UML class on grant-writing.
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  • A person poses for a photo while standing on the corner of a basketball court in an arena.

    Meet the River Hawk Who Has March Madness Covered

    Junior English major Evan Applebaum had a courtside seat for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament at TD Garden in Boston as a sports journalist for the Eagle-Tribune newspaper.
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