The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, a medical school in Worcester and a law school in Dartmouth), a satellite campus in Springfield and also 25 campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts Global. The University of Massachusetts system is governed by a president and a 22-member Board of Trustees, which functions as a legislative body. The system administration is in Boston and Shrewsbury, is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and across its campuses enrolls 73,979 students. Source: Wikipedia (en)