The Fenway is the neighborhood that over 1,800 Emmanuel undergraduates call home. Cultural landmarks, Fenway Park, and everything Boston does best — all part of everyday life.

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston — free for Emmanuel students — holds a collection of nearly 500,000 works from every corner of the globe.
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From leading healthcare organizations and storied cultural institutions to music halls and some of the best food in the country, you can find it all in the Fenway.

Boston is a hub for everything — art and culture, healthcare and life sciences, finance and fintech, sports and entertainment, tradition and innovation, education and more. Being here and a part of this ecosystem connects you to its people and ideas from the start.

Want to find out how you'll fit into it?

Emmanuel College has been home inside Boston's Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA) for over a century where coursework, research and institutions intersect.

Explore the LMA your way!

From hearing your favorite bands at and seeing world-famous art to breaking a sweat and getting your dorm necessities, check out what the Fenway (and the rest of Boston) has to offer.

  • Blick
  • CorePower Yoga
  • Fenway Park
  • The Green at 401 Park
  • Guitar Center
  • Handle Bar
  • House of Blues
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • MGM Music Hall at Fenway
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • Sephora
  • Target
  • Boston Common/Public Garden
  • Charles River Esplanade
  • Faneuil Hall Marketplace
  • Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Museum of Science
  • New England Aquarium
  • Roadrunner Music Hall
  • Seaport
  • Symphony Hall
  • TD Garden
  • Theater District

Boston was named by US News as one of the Best Food Cities in the U.S. (2023), and we're proud to have all these neighborhood favorites just outside our door.

  • Basho
  • Blackbird Doughnuts
  • Blaze Pizza
  • Caffe Nero
  • Cava
  • Chipotle
  • Citizen Public House
  • El Pelon Taqueria
  • Eventide
  • FOMU
  • Loco
  • Pavement Coffeehouse
  • Pressed
  • Regina Pizzeria
  • Saloniki
  • Starbucks
  • Sweet Cheeks Q
  • Sweetgreen
  • Tasty Burger
  • Tenderoni's
  • Ten One Tea House
  • Time Out Market
  • Wahlburgers
  • Yard House

Colleges of the Fenway (COF)

The Fenway is home to a five-college consortium — Emmanuel among them — that lets you cross-register and enjoy perks from other neighboring colleges.

Our Campus

A 17-acre home base in the Heart of Boston, with a big green backyard to match.

The Fenway is one of Boston's busiest, most walkable neighborhoods, and Emmanuel students are right in it. The Museum of Fine Arts (free for Emmanuel students) and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are a short walk away, Fenway Park is close enough to feel every home game (students can get $9 tickets with Student 9s), and MGM Music Hall and House of Blues bring national touring acts a few blocks from campus. Add in five other college campuses in the same few blocks through the Colleges of the Fenway, and daily life naturally spills outside the classroom.

A lot, and most of it is walkable. Within a short walk of campus are the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Fenway Park, MGM Music Hall, House of Blues, Symphony Hall, and everyday spots like Target, Sephora, Guitar Center, and CorePower Yoga. Take the T a few stops further and Boston Common, the Charles River Esplanade, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Science, the New England Aquarium, the Seaport, and TD Garden are all in easy reach. Boston was named one of the Best Food Cities in the U.S. by US News in 2026, and the Fenway alone has dozens of neighborhood restaurants and cafés just outside Emmanuel's door.

Emmanuel is one of five schools in the Colleges of the Fenway consortium, which means Emmanuel students can cross-register for courses at the other four campuses and take advantage of shared events, clubs, and resources across the whole group. Combined, the consortium spans roughly 15,000 students, 2,500 courses, and 700 faculty — figures that describe the shared Fenway community as a whole, not Emmanuel alone — so Emmanuel's own close-knit campus sits inside a much bigger academic and social network without students ever leaving the neighborhood.

Yes — the Fenway sits directly on the MBTA's Green Line, putting the rest of Boston within a short T ride, and most day-to-day needs (class, dining, shops, several other college campuses) are within walking distance of campus to begin with. 

Emmanuel is inside Boston's Longwood Medical and Academic Area, not just near it — the college is a governing member of the Longwood Collective, the organization that administers the district. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School are all within walking distance, along with major employers like Merck Research Laboratories, Boston Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital. For students, it's the ground Emmanuel stands on, and it opens a line to internships, research, and jobs in one of the country's biggest healthcare and life-sciences hubs. Emmanuel's Launchpoint Longwood page goes deeper into exactly how students put that inside it to work.