Boston University Metropolitan College

Career-changing. Life-changing. Game-changing. Transform your future at Boston University’s Metropolitan College (BU MET). Established in 1965, Metropolitan College serves as a bridge from BU to the community and the world, offering flexible programs designed to help busy adults achieve their personal and professional ambitions.

Today, BU MET offers more than 60 industry-relevant graduate degrees and certificates, with options for part-time and full-time study in convenient online and on-campus formats.*

Education and Skills You Can Put to Work

Graduate programs at Boston University’s Metropolitan College immerse you in practical, hands-on learning through projects, case studies, and simulations that reflect emerging needs in industry—learning that prepares you for career-boosting success in tech-driven and analytics-enabled roles across industry and can immediately be put to work on the job. With access to cutting-edge facilities and the latest learning tools—as well as the opportunity to build networks with classmates and industry peers—you benefit from liberating flexibility, an engaging learning community, valuable career networks, and rigorous coursework.

Faculty with a Passion for Teaching

Accessible, supportive, and attentive to your educational and professional needs, BU MET’s faculty share the most advanced knowledge available in their fields. Along with being distinguished scholars, our full-time faculty bring years of practical industry experience to the classroom and are continually raising the bar through applied research, publications, and presentations. Our part-time faculty are active in their professions, sharing the latest expertise, best practices, and most pressing challenges faced by practitioners. As a whole, our faculty engage you with case studies, enlighten with hands-on examples, and challenge with rigorous examination of the ideas, concepts, and methods that drive innovation.

A Focus on Your Success and Career Advancement

At BU’s Metropolitan College you participate in a spirit of innovation that reaches into the global arena. You’re connecting to a diverse community of students and faculty from around the world, engaging in new perspectives, fresh challenges, and novel solutions that prepare you for the competitive and evolving needs of today’s world.

Whether on campus or online, you benefit from continuous support and guidance from a dedicated team of Student Success professionals, as well as the staff of the MET Career Development office, which offers a variety of job-hunting resources, including one-on-one appointments, career guidance and coaching, and resources to matriculated online and in-person degree-seeking students across MET academic disciplines. You can also take advantage of tools and resources available online through BU’s Center for Career Development .

Academics to Enrich Your Life

BU’s Metropolitan College offers a top-quality graduate education from a degree-granting college of Boston University. One of the world’s best-known and most respected universities, BU is ranked #88 in the world by QS World University Rankings, placing it among the top 7 percent of universities. In addition, U.S. News & World Report has ranked BU MET online programs among the top 10 nationally since 2014, including Best Online Master's in Business Programs (Excluding MBA), Best Online Master's in Computer Information Technology Programs, and Best Online Master's in Criminal Justice Programs.

Whether you seek to enhance your expertise with a master’s degree or graduate certificate, BU MET offers more than 60 graduate-level programs in established and emerging areas of industry, emphasizing practical, hands-on learning you can put to work immediately.

Subject areas include:

• Actuarial Science
• Applied Analytics: Data & Business
• Arts Administration
• City Planning & Urban Affairs
• Computer Information Systems
• Computer Science
• Criminal Justice
• Cybersecurity
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Financial Management
• Global Marketing Management
• Health Communication
• Health Informatics
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Supply Chain Management

In 2012, Boston University was invited into the Association of American Universities (AAU), an exclusive consortium of 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada.

BU is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, and several Metropolitan College degree programs have additional accreditation by agencies such as AACSB International―The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (through BU’s Questrom School of Business), the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC), and the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM).

*International students seeking an F-1 visa for on-campus study must enroll full time and demonstrate availability of funds to cover the Estimated Cost of Graduate Study; those who wish to study online may enroll part-time but are not eligible for a visa.