English Language Center - ELC Boston

• Carefully selected host families
• Convenient shared residence with meals
• Fully-equipped shared and private apartments

ELC has a full-time year-round Housing Coordinator dedicated to placing students in their desired accommodation. ELC offers a variety of accommodation options including homestay, apartments and dormitories. We are able to place individuals with other international students in shared rooms as well as place individuals in private rooms. The Housing Coordinator is available to meet with students throughout the day. Students may come to the Housing Coordinator with any questions or concerns that they may have.

Boston is the oldest city in the United States and is rich in history, with an impressive architectural heritage. Boston is also where the computer and biotech revolutions began and where academic life is most heavily concentrated.

Harvard, the nation’s oldest and most famous university, is here. So are some sixty other colleges and universities, including MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), one of America’s leading centers of science and engineering. Altogether these institutions draw hundreds of thousands of students to Boston. They generate the youthful, forward-looking energy the city is celebrated for.

ELC Boston finds itself at home in Boston’s beautiful and historic Beacon Hill neighborhood. Walk outside and you will see the Boston Common where local students gather to sunbathe during the summer months and ice-skate during the winter months. Just a few blocks from the school are delightful art galleries, boutiques, bookstores, and sidewalk cafes on Newbury Street. There is a great variety of places to visit and things to do in Boston. Students enjoy touring the top schools in the world - Harvard and MIT.

As well as visits to Faneuil Hall Marketplace (the country’s number one tourist destination), the Freedom Trail, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science, and sports events of all kinds. Exploring other famous cities on the weekends is also an easy option. Through our friendly tour company, we offer weekend trips to New York City, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

All ELC centers are open authorized test administration sites for all of the Cambridge exams including FCE, CAE and CPE. All ELC centers are authorized IELTS test centers for both the IELTS Academic Test and the IELTS General Training Test. 

Once at ELC, you will feel as though you are at home. We have veteran staff ready to assist you to make your experience as seamless and rewarding as possible. With students from over 50 countries coming through our doors each year you will quickly make close friends to share time exploring and create invaluable memories with.  

You can find great comfort in knowing ELC is an ACCET accredited school and therefore is held to the highest educational standards.

If you choose to study English at ELC in Boston, you will discover a charming world-class city that is young, brilliant, energetic, resourceful, and unforgettable.