Pine Manor College (PMC) is a private, liberal arts college in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and was historically a women-only college until 2014, when it admitted its first male students. It currently serves 450 students, 75% of whom live on the 60-acre (240,000 m2) campus. Originally the college used was for girls who had gone to Dana Hall School, an all girl's preparatory high school, although today it is an independent college.
Pine Manor offers nine undergraduate majors. Upon graduation, students receive the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Associate of Arts, or the Associate of Science.
Since 2006, PMC has also offered a four-semester Master of Fine Arts in creative writing known as the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. Solstice students may concentrate in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics & graphic narratives, or writing for children and young adults.
The school also hosts a profitable English as a second or foreign language program run by multinational company, Kings Education, which can also serve as a university pathway program.
Pine Manor is a Division III member of the NCAA.
The College's athletic teams compete as NCAA independents. Most recently its women's teams competed as members of the Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC) before the conference disbanded in 2016. Before joining the GSAC in the spring of 2013, Pine Manor was a member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) from 1995 to 2012.
PMC sponsors women's in the sports of basketball, cross country, softball, soccer, and volleyball. The college also previously fielded teams in women's tennis and lacrosse. The school started sponsoring men's programs in 2014 with the addition of men's basketball and soccer teams. In 2015, the school added men's cross country. The men's volleyball team started varsity competition in 2017. Pine Manor will add its fifth men's sport, and tenth sport overall, in 2017-18 with the addition of baseball.
| Rank | GRE | GMAT | TOEFL | IELTS | Duolingo | GPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1276 | Not required | Not required | 70 | 6.0 | Not accepted | 3.0 |
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