Emmanuel College—a Catholic, coeducational, residential, liberal arts and sciences college in Boston— was founded in 1919 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as the first Catholic college for women in New England, Emmanuel today is a coeducational, residential college with a 17-acre campus in the heart of Boston's educational, scientific, cultural and medical communities. Emmanuel enrolls more than 2,200 students including 1,950 traditional undergraduate students from 37 states and territories and 41 countries.