Bridgewater State College, founded in 1840, is the comprehensive public college of Southeastern Massachusetts, "the fastest-growing region in the northeastern United States."

Bridgewater’s 235 acres include 32 academic, residential and service buildings, including a new field house, residence hall and dining hall, and an MBTA commuter rail station.

Ninety-seven percent of the 9,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students at Bridgewater are state residents. Seventy-six percent remain in Massachusetts after graduation to live, work and raise their families. The college has more than 42,700 alumni.

Bridgewater offers 29 undergraduate majors in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences, teacher education, and management and aviation science, and master’s degree program that encompass the fields of education, management, public administration, computer science and criminal justice.

Bridgewater is ranked 50th among the nation’s 100 leading colleges and universities in use of technology by Yahoo! Internet Life. The John Joseph Moakley Center for Technological Applications at Bridgewater is New England’s premier electronic teaching and learning facility.