November 2009

To our students, alumni, community and friends:

I am proud to be a part of a dedicated team that has enrolled thousands of students over the past 20 years while remaining true to our mission to provide opportunity and access. There are people behind every application, with individual stories to complement their grades. I know that we will never forget to treat each applicant with individual attention and consideration, conscious of their individual strengths and their promise for future success as dedicated, hard-working, productive citizens.

The average entering grade point average of the current freshman class is 3.0. This includes the 100 new undergraduates admitted conditionally, to whom Suffolk University provides extra academic support. The entering grade point average of our honors students is 3.94.

The University and its academic entities have won accolades from sources ranging from The Princeton Review, which has listed Suffolk in The Best 368 Colleges for six years, to U.S. News & World Report, which in 2009 ranked the University in the top tier for master’s programs.

Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review rank the Sawyer Business School’s undergraduate program in entrepreneurship among the top 25 programs in the United States, while the Financial Times ranks the Business School’s Executive MBA program among the top 95 worldwide.

Here’s what students told the Princeton Review:
• Academic life on the home campus includes “down-to-earth professors” who “are always available outside of the class and are very helpful.” Academics are “incredibly student oriented here.” “The student and (his or her) concerns come first.”

• With an admissions process that emphasizes personal qualities as well as academic excellence, “Suffolk does an excellent job of handpicking the candidates for this (graduate) program.” Thanks to the international focus and part-time programs, the school boasts a “very diverse culture with respect to age, ethnicity, gender, and employment background.”

There are challenges ahead for all of us. I look forward to these as opportunities for Suffolk University to continue its on-going trajectory to deepen and expand our place as a great Boston institution of higher education.  We are a university grounded in our mission of excellence and opportunity for those individuals who are willing to work hard and commit themselves to their work, to society and to the world at large.  

Sincerely,

Marguerite J. Dennis, Vice President
Enrollment and International Programs