Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater State College was founded in 1840 by Horace Mann and is considered one of America’s earliest teacher preparation institutions. In the Massachusetts Public Higher Education System, Bridgewater is the largest state college and the system’s fourth largest overall – quite an accomplishment for an institution that started operation in a single room of the Bridgewater Town Hall’s basement.
A wide range of baccalaureate programs are offered by Bridgewater State College through its School of Education and Allied Studies, School of Arts and Sciences as well as School of Business. The college likewise offers graduate programs through the Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Education, Master of Science in Management, Master of Public Administration and Master of Social Work. It maintains its commitment to teacher preparation programs as it offers courses that would prepare educators for post-baccalaureate licensure. Its four schools provide more than 96 undergraduate and graduate programs.
Bridgewater State College is located at 131 Summer Street, Bridgewater, Massachusetts and occupies a 253-acre campus. However, it also has a campus in Attleboro, plus off-campus programs in other sites including Alden School, Bellingham High School, Bourne High School, BCC Fall River, Cape Cod Community College, League School of Greater Boston, Milton High School, Old Rochester Regional High School, Plymouth Community Intermediate School, Barnstable High School, Barnstable Middle School, Reads Collaborative, William Arnone Community School and the Westhill Institute. All the mentioned sites are located in the State of Massachusetts except for Westhill which is the lone international site located at Santa Fe, Mexico. The Bridgewater-at-the-Oxford Program which started in 1998 aims to provide students a taste of Oxford as all classroom teaching is provided by the Oxford faculty and conducted in Wadham College, one of Oxford’s handsomest colleges.
Bridgewater State College has approximately 10,000 students and more than 300 full-time faculty members. Annual educational cost is approximately $ 14,589.00 inclusive of tuition, fees, room and board. Non-Massachusetts residents however, are charged higher than their resident counterparts. Fully online programs are not yet offered although online credit courses can be combined with traditional classroom courses.
