Groundbreaking Research
At the University of Massachusetts, our internationally renowned faculty members are a driving force for revolutionary research, development and discovery. With some of the brightest minds in the world, the university’s faculty includes a Nobel Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, members of the National Academy of Sciences, an American Book Award winner and Fulbright, Guggenheim, MacArthur and Mellon fellows.
The University of Massachusetts conducts more than $826 million in research across the campuses every year, making it the third-largest research university in Massachusetts, and the fourth-largest in all of New England, behind only Harvard, MIT and Yale. Our faculty, researchers and students are making world-changing discoveries across a variety of fields, especially those critical to Massachusetts, like the life sciences, data science, climate science, and advanced manufacturing, among many others.