List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts

There are 114 colleges and universities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

[5] Boston University is the state's largest institution of higher learning in terms of enrollment, having 32,603 students in the fall of 2013 while Conway School of Landscape Design is the state's smallest college with an enrollment of 18.

There are also two Judaic post-secondary institutions in Massachusetts, including Brandeis University and Hebrew College.

At least eighty-two colleges and universities have closed in Massachusetts, beginning with Worcester Medical Institute in 1859.

The Bible Normal School was founded in Massachusetts but moved to Connecticut before it was merged into the Hartford Seminary.

A red brick building at Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall at Harvard University
A building with a steeple in the foreground with a brick-clad structure in the brackground
Old Chapel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the W. E. B. Du Bois Library in the background
A colored postcard of a red brick building
Campus of Bradford Academy , ca. 1905