GET READY FOR IT’S GO TIME. College is your time to set your goals, and then go after them. Your And that’s not to mention all the amazing new perspectives you’ll get definition of success will be just as unique as you are. And your just by studying and living in the center of one of the world’s most opportunities should be as boundless as your ambitions. innovative, culturally rich, historic, sports championship–winningest, and exciting cities. At Suffolk University in downtown Boston, you’ll find opportunities to expand your studies and open your world around every corner. You’ll gain At Suffolk, you’ll define your own experience, and we’ll always find a new insights in our classrooms—that’s a given. But you’ll also experience way to help you make your way. your education through internships and hands-on learning in our global city. What you learn here will power your success for years to come. At Suffolk University, your professors won’t just share facts—they’ll inspire you to think in fresh ways and challenge conventional wisdom. And they’ll activate their professional networks to help you build yours. Get ready to think outside the classroom, too. At Suffolk, lectures come to life all around Greater Boston. Present your consumer research to execs who need help reaching the Gen Z market. Analyze water samples from the JUST THE Charles River. Suffolk students do all this and RIGHT TIME. more. How will you make your mark? And while you gain field-specific knowledge, JUST THE you’ll learn how to make yourself heard. Suffolk students excel at giving presentations, communicating and collaborating with RIGHT their peers, solving problems, and thinking critically. With these key skills, you’ll be well- PLACE. prepared for jobs that don’t even exist yet. QUICK STATS 70+ undergraduate THE EXPERTS programs AGREE The Best 386 Colleges 4,983 Princeton Review 2021 undergraduate Best Colleges: Region by Region—Best Northeastern students Princeton Review 2021 Best Colleges 99% Colleges of Distinction 2020–2021 working or in grad school within Best Regional Universities North U.S. News & World Report 2021 a year of graduation 15:1 student-faculty ratio BECOME A Our Empowering Community If you’ve got the drive, there’s a place for you at Suffolk. Are you the first in your family to go to college? Are you a veteran? Did you grow up in the inner city or a small town? You’ll fit right in. Gabriela Soto Cotto had a 4.0 Now a PPE major and honors your classmates and professors. to live,” she says, “and I want a high school GPA and a semester student, she’s traded shopping carts You’ll master innovative concepts planet to live in.” A Sierra Club at the University of Puerto Rico for choreography with the Pasión and new ways of thinking. And fellowship back home taught her under her belt. So why did she Latina dance team. Plus, she’s a since our programs are designed to how to organize environmental leave everything to push carts at a modern language assistant in address contemporary challenges, projects. She then started a wholesale store in Massachusetts the Language Lab, helping students integrate service learning, and nonprofit to help provide clean for seven months? with their Spanish speaking and promote creativity, you’ll be energy to a low-income community writing skills. prepared for success. devastated by Hurricane Maria. “The hope to do a lot more than I would have been able to if I stayed Gabriela, set to graduate in Suffolk students give back—not Now she’s getting ready to apply to on that little 35-x-100-mile island,” December 2020, loves the global because community service looks law school. “My journey has been she says. “All I needed was to save diversity here and learns from good on a resume, but because they different,” she says, “and that up to pay for school.” it. “You become friends with care. And our service opportunities makes it special.” someone,” she says, “and you start are just as diverse as the students A random stranger encouraged sharing stories and learning what who build houses for the homeless Suffolk was founded on the values her to research Suffolk. Then she life is like outside your bubble. on their semester breaks, help of access and opportunity more discovered the interdisciplinary It’s humbling to put yourself in other immigrants file their taxes pro bono, than a century ago, and we’re politics, philosophy, and people’s shoes. We all deserve the volunteer with children through true to our roots. This mission has economics (PPE) degree. “This same respect and empathy.” Jumpstart, and more. transformed the lives of our 84,000+ is me in a major,” she remembers alumni and their communities. It will thinking. “I question everything.” Whatever you major in, Suffolk Gabriela wants to be a politician change yours, too. Gabriela registered for a transfer classes are purposely small, so and is passionate about the on-the-spot decision day. you’ll forge strong connections with environment. “I have a long time 100+ STUDENT CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING: LEADERSHIP Black Student Union PROGRAMS Entrepreneurship Club Journey Leadership Program Environmental Club Student Government Association Greek Council Leadership through F1 Racing Health Careers Club LeadHERship Hillel Help Portrait International Business Club Leadership through Sailing Rainbow Alliance LeaderChef Seriously Bent Comedy Troupe Dancing with the Stahs Suffolk University Dance Company Video Gamers Army Women in Business Catch all the action and breathtaking views from your new campus in the heart of Boston on Instagram. suffolk.edu/getinvolved suffolk_u Our World of Opportunities Our planet is more interconnected than ever. To really thrive in today’s world—and tomorrow’s—you’ll need to appreciate and navigate its many cultures. The Suffolk community is global. Our faculty and students come from around the world to teach and learn GET WISE TO here in Boston. That means you’ll glean new, eye-opening insights from your professors and THE WORLD classmates alike. It was freezing when Tristen Herbert You’ll get a whole new worldview on Now, Tristen has a United Kingdom and a friend broke out their best our diverse campus. We also make stamp in his passport, thanks to his suits, printed out their resumes it easy to make your way almost summer finance internship with and business cards, and visited anywhere on the map, starting with Bloomberg in London. “I want Boston’s top employers in search our Global Gateway Program, which to develop businesses all over the of internships as freshmen. “And introduces you to our campus in world,” he says. “Understanding it worked!” he says. “I ended up Madrid, Spain, as a freshman. You British culture, seeing what their getting an internship with Placester in can go on travel seminars in the business ethics are and how they the Financial District.” world’s business hubs (and meet operate will help me in the future.” with Suffolk alumni working abroad) Tristen, BSBA ’20, traveled from his and have the chance to study The world needs farsighted, open- Caribbean home in St. Kitts and abroad on nearly every continent. minded, culturally aware thinkers. Nevis to study global business and You might explore leadership and The question isn’t just how you’ll finance here. “Suffolk is basically the local culture in Barbados with the make your mark at Suffolk and after size of my island’s population,” he Journey Leadership Program or graduation; it’s where. jokes. “I told my friends that I’d never volunteer in Southeast Asia over seen snow. On the first big snow day, spring or winter break. they organized a snowball fight for me on Boston Common.” Extremely shy when he arrived on campus, Tristen changed all that by the end of his first semester. His secret? Getting involved on campus. “It helped me with my speaking, listening, and presentation skills,” he says. He and his friends even founded one of Suffolk’s newest organizations, the Fundamental Brotherhood Society, which he calls “a moral guide and support system. Associate Dean of Students Shawn Newton is our advisor and he believed in us,” Tristen says. “I’d go to his office at least once a month to just talk.” SEE THE WORLD STRENGTH IN WITH SUFFOLK OUR DIVERSITY Semester abroad Academic year abroad 19% Faculty-led study tours of undergraduates are international Global Gateway Program WE HAVE SO MANY STUDY 34% ABROAD PROGRAMS, of undergraduates are domestic THEY CAN’T FIT ON students of color THIS PAGE. THEY INCLUDE: • • Australia Brazil Chile • • + China Costa Rica Czech Republic 20 • • Denmark Ecuador England cultural affinity groups on campus • • France Germany Greece • • • Hong Kong India Ireland Italy #1 • • • Japan Mexico Monaco Netherlands • • largest percentage of international New Zealand Norway Poland... students among the country’s 50+ programs in 30+ countries regional universities north suffolk.edu/studyabroad U.S. News & World Report College of Arts & Sciences MAJOR IN INSPIRATION It actually was a dark and stormy real-world experience and make and explore historic sites. Learn to day. Yasir Batalvi took cover contacts at site visits. What are balance equations in our labs; then, There’s an art and a under a convenient awning. you supposed to do at 8 a.m. on intern at a world-class biomedical Realizing he was standing outside the weekend before an election? firm nearby. Those are just two science to picking Suffolk, he went in to explore the Campaign Lab will teach you.” examples from so many others.