263 Alden Street
Springfield
MA 01109-3797
Telephone: +1 (413) 748-3000
About Springfield College
Founded in 1885, Springfield College is a private, coeducational
institution that emphasizes the education of leaders for the allied health
sciences, human and social services, sports and movement activities, and the
arts and sciences. Its distinctive humanics philosophy - education of the
whole person consisting of spirit, mind, and body - prepares students for
leadership in service to others.
It is world renowned as the birthplace of basketball, a game created by
Professor James Naismith in 1891, and as the alma mater of William G.
Morgan, inventor of the game of volleyball. It also has a long-standing and
close relationship with the YMCA as an educator of its leaders.
Springfield College offers 50 undergraduate and 14 graduate major areas
of study and serves more than 5,000 traditional, nontraditional, and
international students at its main campus in Springfield, Mass. and at its
satellite campuses in Boston, Massachusetts; Inglewood/Los Angeles and San
Diego, California; Wilmington, Delaware; Tampa, Florida; Manchester, New
Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; St. Johnsbury, Vermont; and
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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