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Welcome, MassArt’s Incoming Class

Two students with blue MassArt Housing bins smile, ready to meet the incoming outside the campus building.
Photos by Melissa Ostrow (@melophotoboston)
  • Campus News

A new academic year brings new perspectives, experiences, and creative voices to the MassArt community.

The newest members of the MassArt community arrived on campus this weekend, bringing plenty of boxes, fresh art supplies, big ideas, and excitement for the year ahead.

Move-in weekend welcomed new students and their families to campus with help from Primers, Res Life, the Student Success team, and members of the MassArt community who helped students get settled and ready to begin the academic year.

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Smiling young man with art supplies, ready to meet the incoming at MassArt by boxes in a bright room.

Three in yellow shirts welcome the MassArt Incoming Class with a sign on a sunny meet-and-greet sidewalk.

Meet the Incoming Class: Five smiling MassArt students stand by blue moving bins, one giving a thumbs up.

Three people from MassArt’s Incoming Class meet, smiling with burgers and fries near a food truck.

Incoming Class students push blue carts full of items outdoors, possibly during MassArt move-in day.

Six people in MassArt shirts joyfully jump on a city sidewalk, celebrating the Incoming Class, arms raised.

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new students, representing a range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Meet the Incoming Class

24%

are transfer students

35%

are first-generation college students

42%

identify as BIPOC

75%

are from Massachusetts

14%

come from neighboring states across New England and New York

11%

come from elsewhere in the United States

From move-in and Orientation to the first days in studios and classrooms, a new year at MassArt is underway.

Welcome to MassArt, Class of 2030 and our newest transfer students.

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