Fact Sheet

Character

• Founded 1909 by Edith Lesley
• Private University
• Urban campus located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with easy access
  to Boston
• Degrees conferred: Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral,
  Post-Master's, and Postbachelor's Certificates

Undergraduate Admission (Fall 2008)

• Applicants: 2,533
• Admissions: 1,637

Students Enrolled

• Men: 83
• Women: 246
• Total Freshman Class: 328

Unduplicated Annual Headcount
(Academic Year 2007-08)

• Undergraduate: 1,857
• Graduate Students: 7,768
• Total Enrollment: 9,625

Faculty (Academic Year 2008-09)

• Full Professor: 47
• Associate Professor: 58
• Assistant Professor: 50
• Instructor: 21
• Total Contract Faculty: 176

Finance (Fiscal Year 2007-08)

• Total Revenues and Investment Return $232 million
• Total Expenses $98 million

Degrees Conferred (2008-2009)

• Bachelor’s: 381
• Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies: 70
• Master’s: 2,375
• Ph.D.: 3

Alumni (Fall 2008)

• The Art Institute of Boston: 3,952
• Lesley College: 7,156
• Lesley College – Adult Learning Division: 3,258
• School of Education: 26,610
• Graduate School of Arts and Social Science: 17,965
• Others: 8,946
• Total Alumni 67,887

Libraries (Fall 2008)

• Physical Holdings: 93,434
• Digital Holdings: 59,186
• Total Holdings: 152,620

Campuses/Facilities

As Lesley prepares to celebrate its Centennial year in 2010, it is embarking on major plans for expansion and reconfiguration that will bring all on-campus programs to Cambridge, enable the expansion of on-campus enrollment and develop a tri-campus model encompassing three areas within walking distance. The original Quad Campus is already complemented by the School of Education based at the Porter Campus. Approval of the plans for new construction, and the restoration and integration of an historic church that will bring AIB to Cambridge will lead to the development of an “arts quad” at Porter. Finally, the relocation of the main library collection, and renovation of residence halls and buildings being purchased from the Episcopal Divinity School will lead to the development of the Brattle Campus.

Buildings Owned by Lesley University:
2003 – 2007

	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total Size of Buildings	617,847	582,047	662,150	677,900	681,157
Institutional/Academic	427,007	276,593	300,592	362,821	358,241
Student Activities/Athletic	0	0	0	11,000	11,000
Dormitory/Nontaxable Residential	0	110,414	118,411	131,432	139,581
Commercial	156,784	157,984	166,984	166,984	96,486
Taxable Residential	36,056	37,056	76,163	76,163	76,163
Number of Buildings	32	32	32	32	32

Source: 2007 Town-Gown Report.

Residential Students

Lesley’s capacity to house undergraduate students in on-campus housing has been steadily increasing. Current housing capacity is 665. In the fall of 2008, the University broke ground for a new dorm that will add 98 additional beds.