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Western New England University, usually referred to as WNE, is a private, coeducational institution in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1919 as the Springfield Division of Northeastern College, a satellite campus, its initial raison d¡¯¨ºtre was to provide part-time adult courses in accounting, business and law. It now continues to offer such opportunities, but most of today¡¯s students, who can choose from more than 45 undergraduate programmes in total, are full-time. WNE gained full university status in 2011.

More than 70% of WNE¡¯s students live on its tree-lined campus, which comprises more than 200 acres just east of the city centre. Springfield, where Abraham Lincoln lived and practiced law for decades, is just north of the state¡¯s border with Connecticut, whose state capital Hartford is 30 miles away, and 80 miles west of Boston.

WNE alumni include Larry O¡¯Brien, a Democratic Party stalwart who was chairman of the Democratic National Committee and campaign manager for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey¡¯s presidential bids, Thomas S. Moorman Jr., a former vice chief of staff of the US Air Force, and Anthony Katagas, a producer whose best-known film 12 Years a Slave won three Academy Awards in 2014, including Best Picture.