About Boston Architectural College

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Boston Architectural College, also known as The BAC, is New England’s largest private moot of spatial design. It offers first-professional bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and non-professional design studies. The speculative offers continuing education credits and certificates and then hosts the BAC Summer Academy for high school students, as without difficulty as a variety of supplementary ways for the general public to question spatial design. It hosts spatial design exhibits and exhibits student and alumni work in its McCormick Gallery and frequently hosts conferences and symposia upon spatial design.

The BAC is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA, formerly FIDER) and the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB). The BAC is a enthusiast of the ProArts Consortium.

Boston (US: /ˈbɔːstən/, UK: /ˈbɒstən/) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States and 21st most populous city in the United States. The city proper covers 48.4 square miles (125 km2) with an estimated population of 692,600 in 2019, also making it the most populous city in New England. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county running was disbanded upon July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural broadcaster of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader comprehensive statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting Place and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States.

Boston is one of the oldest municipalities in the United States, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the same name. It was the scene of several key activities of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Upon American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as competently as a middle for education and culture. The city has expanded over the indigenous peninsula through home reclamation and municipal annexation. Its wealthy history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing exceeding 20 million visitors per year. Boston’s many firsts insert the United States’ first public park (Boston Common, 1634), first public or divulge school (Boston Latin School, 1635) and first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897).

Today, Boston is a thriving middle of scientific research. The Boston area’s many colleges and universities make it a world leader in innovative education, including law, medicine, engineering and business, and the city is considered to be a global investor in spread and entrepreneurship, with nearly 5,000 startups. Boston’s economic base also includes finance, professional and issue services, biotechnology, information technology and government activities. Households in the city allegation the highest average rate of unselfishness in the United States; businesses and institutions rank accompanied by the summit in the country for environmental sustainability and investment. The city has one of the highest costs of vivacious in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings.