Simmons is a nationally recognized small, private, predominantly women's liberal arts university with undergraduate programs for women and graduate programs for women and men. It has a prestigious undergraduate women's college, the world's only graduate business school designed specifically for women; highly respected coeducational graduate schools of library and information science, health studies, and social work; and graduate programs in education, communications management, and the liberal arts. Graduate degrees are offered to the doctoral level.
Approximately 1,300 undergraduate female students and nearly 2,500 graduate students, male and female, enjoy a student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1.
