he University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth, UMassD, or “UMD”) is one of five campuses and operating subdivisions of the University of Massachusetts (UMass).[5] It is located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States, in the center of the South Coast region, between the cities of New Bedford to the east and Fall River to the west. It became a UMass campus in 1991 when Southeastern Massachusetts University was merged into the University of Massachusetts system