[7] Sarah Louise Arnold was the school's first dean[8] (she also later served as national president of the Girl Scouts).

Furthermore, Simmons was one of the few private colleges not to impose admission quotas on Jewish students for the first half of the 1900s.

[12] In 2014, Simmons College teamed up with for-profit online program manager 2U, a deal that would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for the school.

[17] Simmons University is currently divided into two campuses located in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

The original site of the Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work is featured on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.

Additionally, the plan outlines renovations to the Main College Building and Lefavour Hall.

In order to achieve such an endeavor, Simmons University entered into an agreement with Skanska, a multinational construction and property development company.

[19] Secondly, Skanska will plan and execute commercial development of the former residential campus after the construction of the Living and Learning Center is completed.

It is immediately adjacent to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Latin School.

This campus currently consists of five buildings: According to the College Scorecard, the racial and ethnic composition of the undergraduate population is 62% white, 11% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% black, and 5% non-resident alien.

[3] Its most popular undergraduate majors, by number out of 412 graduates in 2022, were:[25] Simmons University reorganized its academic structure in 2024 to foster interdisciplinary learning and cross-departmental collaboration among its constituent schools: Simmons University sponsors athletics teams in a variety of sports including crew, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, and volleyball.