,·Private (Catholic, Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston)·Est. 1927
“A Catholic, mission-driven university in suburban Boston, nationally known for nursing and the health sciences.”
Regis College is a private Catholic university located on a wooded 132-acre estate in Weston, Massachusetts, about 12 miles west of downtown Boston. Founded in 1927 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston, Regis was for eighty years one of New England's most respected Catholic women's colleges before becoming fully coeducational in fall 2007 — the last Catholic women's college in the Boston area to admit men. Today it enrolls roughly 2,700 students across undergraduate, graduate, and online programs, and remains a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph, with social justice, service, and care for the whole person built into the academic culture. The university is best known nationally for nursing and health sciences. Its Richard and Sheila Young School of Nursing offers traditional and accelerated BSN tracks, RN-to-BS completion, six MSN specialties (family, adult-gerontology primary and acute care, pediatric, psychiatric mental health, women's health), and a BSN-to-DNP pathway, taught by faculty who practice across Boston's world-class hospital network. The School of Health Sciences adds occupational therapy, public health, social work, and the health professions; the School of Arts and Sciences anchors the liberal-arts core; and the Marshall M. Sloane School of Business and Communication rounds out a career-oriented portfolio. Life at Regis is deliberately small, residential, and personal. Most first-year students live on the wooded Weston campus in halls like Angela, Domitilla, and Maria, and a 12-to-1 student-faculty ratio means seminar-sized classes and direct access to professors. Athletics compete in NCAA Division III as the Regis Pride in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference, and traditions like Regis Fest, Pizza with the President, and the annual Christmas tree lighting at Luben Plaza give the campus a tight-knit, Catholic-LAC feel — within easy commuter-rail reach of Boston, Cambridge, and the city's hospital and biotech corridor.
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Official SourceEarly Action (Fall)
Non-binding; priority consideration for merit aid.
Regular Decision (Fall)
Priority RD deadline; rolling thereafter as space allows.
Spring Priority
First-year and transfer priority for spring 2026 entry.
Transfer Priority (Fall)
This university does not consider SAT or ACT scores in admissions.
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Tuition & Fees (All Students)
$49,680 – $51,666
/yr
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How life on campus actually feels — clubs, sports, traditions, housing realities, and how the school integrates with its city.
The flagship school at Regis and a regional leader in nurse education. Offers traditional BSN, 16-month Accelerated BSN, RN-to-BS completion, six MSN specialties, post-master's certificates, and a BSN-to-DNP. ACEN-accredited, with simulation labs and clinical placements across Boston-area hospitals.
Houses the health professions outside of nursing — occupational therapy, public health, social work, and applied health programs — preparing students for clinical and population-health careers in the Boston medical ecosystem.
The liberal-arts core of the university, grounded in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Strong undergraduate programs in psychology, biology, English, history, and the natural and social sciences feed both the health-professions pipeline and pre-graduate study.
Career-focused undergraduate and graduate business and communication programs with internship pipelines into Boston-area firms, healthcare administration, and nonprofits aligned with the university's social-justice mission.
4 years
Regis's signature program: a four-year BSN with extensive clinical hours across Boston-area hospitals, ACEN-accredited, with strong NCLEX pass rates and direct pathways into MSN and BSN-to-DNP study.
1.5 years
A 16-month second-degree pathway for students who already hold a non-nursing bachelor's. Cohort-based, full-time, with the same clinical depth as the four-year BSN — popular with career-changers.
4 years
Direct-entry doctoral pathway for BSN-holders aiming for advanced-practice nursing roles (FNP, AGNP, PMHNP, PNP, WHNP). Hybrid format mixing on-campus intensives with online coursework and supervised clinical practica.
2.5 years
Entry-level MSOT preparing students for OT licensure, with fieldwork sites across Massachusetts and a doctoral-level OTD pathway for those seeking the terminal practice degree.
Where alumni go after graduation — top industries, grad-school continuation, and the qualitative outcomes story.
Sticker price (annual, out-of-state): $49,680
Net-cost estimate is US-resident-only — international applicants are typically excluded from need-based aid at most schools and should treat the sticker price as the planning baseline.
