Simmons College, established in 1899, is a private women's undergraduate college and private co-educational graduate school in Boston, Massachusetts. Simmons was founded in 1899 with a bequest by John Simmons to educate women, so they could have an independent livelihood. Simmons is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium which also includes Emmanuel College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Wheelock College, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Simmons absorbed Garland Junior College in 1976. The undergraduate program is exclusive to women, with 2,060 students enrolled in the 2008-2009 academic year. The graduate schools (Library and Information Science, Social Work, Health Sciences, Business Management, and an Arts and Sciences program which provide degrees in Education, Communications management, Gender and Cultural Studies and Liberal Arts) are coed, with the exception the MBA program, which is the world's first MBA program designed specifically for women.