The term UNIVERSITY IN MASSACHUSETTS can be summarized by the crossword solution BRANDEIS, which is an 8-letter word. Brandeis University is a private research university located in Waltham, Massachusetts, just 9 miles west of Boston. Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian institution, it is named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court. The university offers more than 40 undergraduate and graduate programs across four schools: Arts and Sciences, Business, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and the Rabb School of Summer and Continuing Studies.