Intellectual Rigor
Morrissey College challenges students to discover and achieve their full potential. Renowned faculty, innovative courses, and off-campus opportunities expand students’ knowledge and experience.
When students enter ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ, they take the first steps on a journey of discovery—one that stimulates their intellectual, personal, ethical, and spiritual growth. Morrissey College programs ask students to learn about themselves, their communities, and the world, to search for truth wherever they go, and to use their talents to improve the lives of others.
Morrissey College challenges students to discover and achieve their full potential. Renowned faculty, innovative courses, and off-campus opportunities expand students’ knowledge and experience.
Explore the range of disciplines that shape well-educated people prepared to thrive in the 21st century. A liberal arts education at ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ develops valuable skills, including critical thinking, ethical decision-making, effective communication, and the capacity to see human experience from a range of perspectives.
Our Core Curriculum exposes students to the works in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences that have influenced our world. Distinctive interdisciplinary core courses focus on the complex problems and enduring questions that have defined human history.Â
Here, scholarly collaboration draws research and teaching beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. The Core Curriculum, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the upcoming Institue for Integrated Science and Society, and a variety of research projects bring together students and faculty from different areas of inquiry.
Intellectual rigor, integrating knowledge, student formation, care for individuals, using our education in service to others—these Jesuit, Catholic values define the ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ experience. More than 75% of students volunteer during their undergraduate years, including through the PULSE Program and a range of service opportunities.
With more than 50 institutions of higher learning in metropolitan area, Boston is truly one of the preeminent college towns. It’s also a world-class city full of history, scientific and tech innovators, culture, and internship possibilities.
Students benefit from the connections and support of the tight-knit and loyal network of nearly 180,000 ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ alumni.
Stokes Hall, completed in 2013, is a 183,000-square-foot building devoted to the humanities at ɬÀï·¬ÏÂÔØ.