Pine Manor College

Pine Manor College is a private four-year liberal arts college situated on over 45 wooded acres in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline, Massachusetts, only a few miles outside of Boston. For over 100 years, Pine Manor College has provided a student-focused education and tailored mentoring grounded in the liberal arts tradition.

Serving a majority of first-generation and low-income students, Pine Manor College promotes diversity where students from a range of linguistic, economic, and cultural backgrounds experience a personal learning environment that transforms them, preparing them for successful careers in an ever-changing world. With competencies grounded in the liberal arts tradition, our graduates enter employment and advanced studies with critical thinking skills, a commitment to civic engagement, and immediate job and long-term career opportunities.

Pine Manor College offers four core areas of study in Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences, Business and Management, Early Childhood Education, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The College also offers a master’s degree via its highly regarded MFA in Creative Writing Program.

The College also provides its students the opportunity to further their athletic pursuits in the college setting. Pine Manor College competes in Division III NCAA Athletics and offers 5 Women's Varsity sports: basketball, cross-country, soccer, softball and volleyball, and 5 NCAA Men's Varsity Sports: basketball, cross-country, soccer, baseball, volleyball.

The mission of Pine Manor College is to make certain that all graduates are prepared to take meaningful steps in their lives: engaging in new jobs and careers, continuing to learn, and positively contributing to their communities.

Students, including those who are the first in their families to attend college, who are looking for a purposeful education in a personalized and inclusive learning community will find a home at Pine Manor College.

We offer our students an intentionally individualized education and tailor our programs to meet them where they are. The idea that learning happens one student at a time is woven into our fabric, along with a strong commitment to community building.

Diversity and inclusion are our strengths. Students learn from a wide range of instructors, mentors, and advisors, as well as from each other. Together, we have found ways to harness the power of the whole Pine Manor College community and its many off-campus partners in what is truly a borderless learning environment focused on one outcome: student success.

Pine Manor College is all about your success. We achieve our mission of ‘Educating with Purpose’ by getting to know you, your dreams, your aspirations, and your motivations. Our faculty and staff are committed to your personal success as much as to your academic achievements. If you are just as committed to reaching your goals, we will be thrilled to join forces with you and support your journey.

Pine Manor College is not your typical college. Just minutes from downtown Boston, the college enjoys about 50 acres of landscaped grounds. Our beautiful campus, located in the sought-after Brookline neighborhood of Chestnut Hill, is home to under 500 students. And it is indeed a home away from home. Our small community is our strength. It allows our faculty and staff to provide a support structure rarely seen on college campuses.

Our community of learners includes 84% students who are the first in their families to go to college, and 85% who are coming from underrepresented communities. We thrive on our uniqueness and celebrate our focus on student success, and to achieve that we created the Student Success Initiative. Among other resources, the initiative designates both an Academic Coach and a Success Coach to each one of our students, essentially providing at least two mentors to support you on your college journey. Our priority is to ensure all of our students feel empowered and encouraged throughout their career at Pine Manor College. There are concrete outcomes to that individualized approach: For the last two years all of our graduates - yes, 100% of our 2016 and 2017 graduating classes - were either employed or pursuing advanced degrees within 6 months of graduation. They came to Pine Manor College dreaming of a B.A. degree, however, they completed their education with a career!

Pine Manor College is among the most affordable private colleges and universities in the country. At Pine Manor, our student population receives on going financial-aid consultation, and assistants which may include need-based and merit-based scholarships and grants, loans, and work-study. We encourage every student to carefully consider all sources of financial aid.

PMC's strong liberal arts tradition prepares students not only for their careers but also for their lives! The College combines this strong liberal arts education with our academic major programs. We emphasize the importance of learning outside as well as inside the classroom by incorporating internships, service learning projects, and community-based research. Each major program requires completion of a one-semester senior internship (16 hours per week). These internships have been most successful in helping students to secure entry-level positions in their chosen field. Some students use the internship as a platform for further post-graduate study. Furthermore, the College has ongoing relationships with institutions in the Boston area that facilitate student entry into internships and postgraduate employment and/or education. Individualized student portfolios document skills such as effective communication, critical thinking, collaboration, citizenship, and integrated and applied learning, that will be invaluable in our students' workplaces, families, and communities.