GREAT TEACHING
Pine Manor students don’t have to stay on campus to learn! The college offers a co-curriculum with nearby Boston College and Babson College for expanded course offerings…
Students Learn Through Inclusive Leadership and Social Responsibility
Pine Manor offers ten major fields— Biology, Communication, Economic & Financial Systems, English, History, Management & Organizational Change, Psychology, Social and Political Systems, Visual Arts, as well as an option to design your own Major (options limited by courses and faculty expertise) - but more than sixty options within these majors give students a wide array of academic choices. Students in English, for example, may choose to concentrate on English education or on creative writing. Within the Social and Political Systems program, students may select national and international politics or criminal justice. One of the most popular programs at Pine Manor is Biology.
Pine Manor’s approach to education is focused on the process of both learning and teaching. Students are encouraged to engage in the process—to challenge one another in discussions and to remain open to new perspectives. The low student to faculty ratio of ten to one helps foster this environment. On average, 75 percent of full-time faculty hold the PhD or the highest equivalent degree in their field, and 68 percent of full-time faculty are women. With 72 percent of Pine Manor’s classes having fewer than twenty students, the college ranks among the nation’s top forty liberal arts colleges in class size.
Academic Programs Pine Manor offers over 50 areas of interest within ten majors. Majors include: Biology, Communication, Economic & Financial Systems, English, History, Management & Organizational Change, Psychology, Social and Political Systems, Visual Arts, as well as an option to design your own Major (options limited by courses and faculty expertise).
VIBRANT COMMUNITIES
The best of both worlds. Pine Manor is located just minutes from downtown Boston, so students get the benefits of both a small community and a large city….
A Small Community in a Big City
Pine Manor is one of a very small number of non-historically black colleges in the nation to have more black students than white students. Other substantial numbers of students identify themselves as Hispanic, Asian-American, Native American, Haitian, Puerto Rican, and Cape Verdean.
Pine Manor’s comprehensive, four-credit, first-year seminar, co-taught by faculty and staff, serves as an excellent orientation to the college experience. The seminar uses topics and issues selected by students to focus on academic issues such as reading, writing, and research, as well as such personal issues as moving away from home, living with a roommate, and being part of an intensely diverse community.
More than three-quarters of Pine Manor students live in residence halls on campus. Residence halls, each with thirty students, are grouped into three villages. Within each village, a first-year advisor, a resident assistant, and student-life staff members provide support.
Pine Manor has worked hard to create an inclusive environment. In line with this focus, the college does not have a typical student government. Rather, students have a strong voice in the life of the college through individual efforts and through clubs and organizations. It is an organic way of involving all members of the community in decision making.
Just a few miles from downtown Boston and a short walk to the T—Boston’s subway system—Pine Manor students enjoy all the amenities of one of the nation’s great cities. Yet, located on seventy wooded acres, the campus has the feel of a college far from urban noise and congestion.
SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES
Students leave PMC with the skills and strengths to become leaders within their communities, families and businesses…
A Woman’s College Equals a Great Start on Life
Most Pine Manor alumni remain in New England. They are successful in many different career paths, notably in the sciences and in criminal justice. Pine Manor’s office of experiential learning, internships, and career services helps students set career goals and offers more than one thousand internship opportunities, which often lead to students’ first jobs upon graduation.
A few years ago, while the cost of college tuition was skyrocketing all across the country, one of Pine Manor’s alumni gave a generous donation and Pine Manor took the extraordinary step to reduce their tuition by 34 percent. As a result, Pine Manor is now among the most affordable private four year colleges in the country, offering a highly personalized, quality education.
FAST FACTS
Pine Manor College is a small, liberal arts college with a mission to prepare women for lives of inclusive leadership and social responsibility in their workplaces, families and communities. Pine Manor College offers women the chance to experience the benefits of a multi-cultural education in a collaborative, supportive learning environment. For nearly 100 years, students have enjoyed the benefits of a quality, personalized, affordable private education within sight of a world class city.
Web site www.pmc.edu
Location Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts—5 miles from downtown Boston.
Student Profile 500 undergraduate students (100 % female); 25 states and territories, 22 countries: 65 % minority, 9 % international.
Faculty Profile 75% of full-time faculty hold a terminal degree in their field. 10:1 student/faculty ratio. Average class size is 14.
Residence Life Highly residential: 68 % of students live on campus.
Athletics NCAA Division III, 7 varsity sports (basketball, cross-country, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball).
Academic Programs Biology, Communication, Economic & Financial Systems, English, History, Management & Organizational Change, Psychology, Social and Political Systems, Visual Arts, as well as an option to design your own Major (options limited by courses and faculty expertise).
Costs and Aid 2010–2011: $34,854 comprehensive ($21,400 tuition). 89% of students receive some financial aid.
Endowment $11 million.
More Distinctions
The most diverse (#1) liberal arts college in the country, U.S. News and World Report.
Voted #1 for Difference between actual and predicated graduate rates - Washington Monthly 2009
Voted #5 for Social Mobility - Washington Monthly 2009
ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID
Admissions Requirements for First-Year Students
Request an Admissions Application. This can be obtained on the Pine Manor Admissions website http://www.pmc.edu/admissions/firstyear/apply.html or by calling the Office of Admissions at 617-731-7104 or 1-800-PMC-1357.
A completed application will include the application for admissions, along with