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Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation's oldest art schools, and the only publicly funded independent art school in the United States. It was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree.

Identifiers

OPEID6 Six-digit base OPE ID (without the two-digit branch suffix)
2180
OPEID Office of Postsecondary Education Identifier, used for federal financial aid program participation
218000
IPEDS UNITID Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
166674
DAPIP ID Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs identifier from the U.S. Department of Education
121406

Location

Boston, MA, 02115-5882

42.336862, -71.099275

Accreditation

New England Commission on Higher Education

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