Mount Ida College

Mount Ida College was a private college in Newton, Massachusetts. In 2018, the University of Massachusetts Amherst acquired the campus and renamed it the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst. The Mount Ida School for Girls, once a high school, became a finishing school and was founded in 1899 by George Franklin Jewett, and was named after th…
Mount Ida College was a private college in Newton, Massachusetts. In 2018, the University of Massachusetts Amherst acquired the campus and renamed it the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst. The Mount Ida School for Girls, once a high school, became a finishing school and was founded in 1899 by George Franklin Jewett, and was named after the hill on which it was located in Newton Corner, Massachusetts.
  • Former names: Mount Ida School for Girls, Mount Ida Junior College
  • Type: Private
  • Active: 1899–2018
  • Endowment: $23.5 million (as of June 30, 2016)
  • Academic staff: 59 (Fall 2016)
  • Students: 1,389 (Fall 2016)
  • Undergraduates: 1,352 (Fall 2016)

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