Becker College’s 2021 closing contained a lesson for Central Massachusetts schools heading into the next decade.
The New England Commission of Higher Education and Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (DHE) first announced that the private college had begun considering closure as an option due to financial difficulties earlier that year.
Becker with campuses in Worcester and Leicester – was the tenth-largest school in the region at the time by enrollment, according to a WBJ article by Grant Welker, with 1,698 undergraduate and graduate students. But according to the state DHE, it was stymied by increased costs, the pandemic, and fewer high schoolers entering college.
Read more at WBJ Worcester Business Journal.
