Becker College Plans for Spring Graduation while Preparing for Uncertain Future

Update: On March 28, the Board of Trustees voted to permanently close Becker College at the end of the current academic year. The College will provide academic, support and transitional services to students through August 31, 2021.  Following an orderly transition, classes will not resume in the Fall.

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The Worcester Business Journal reports on March 15, 2021 that "Becker, on cusp of potential closure, planning spring graduation but making contingency plans for students." 

Reporter Grant Welker also notes that the New England Commission of Higher Education and the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education issued a joint statement earlier in March indicating that the institution in unlikely to continue operations into the next academic year. 

You can find more information in Welker's initial article, "Becker College planning for potential closure."

Becker traces its roots to the founding of Leicester Academy in 1784 and Becker's Business College founded in Worcester in 1887.

Leicester evolved to become a junior college in 1954 and in 1977 merged with what was then Becker Junior College of Business Administration and Secretarial Science.

If you are interested in recent trends for closures, mergers, and acquisitions access College Closures since 2009 in the index at the right of any College History Garden page. There are separate tabs for non-profit closures, for-profit closures, and one for mergers and acquisitions. Each tab includes basic information for the institutions, i.e., Carnegie Classification, sector, accrediting agency, and the IPEDS unitid.