Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | September 3, 2018 | Worcester Business Journal 13 Preventing school risk takes more than just great insurance. At Marsh & McLennan Agency, we understand that you want to execute your mission while keeping your people, your assets, and your reputation safe. Our Higher Education team specializes in providing risk management services and cutting-edge solutions to schools across the country. WORLD CLASS. LOCAL TOUCH. It's our business to be there for you in the MOMENTS THAT MATTER. LEARN MORE Visit MMA-NE.com or contact your local Worcester office to see how we can help you. H I G H E R E D U C A T I O N F O C U S September 8, 2018 Grand Tasting Union Station VIP and General Admission Tickets on Sale Additional Wine Dinners and Tastings September 4-9 Uncork Some Fun! Tickets on Sale Media Partner WorcesterWineFestival.com e school – which has only gradu- ate students in Worcester — now owns 18 properties in the city. Its white lab coat-clad students can be seen walking anywhere from Worcester Common to Lincoln Square. "I would attribute the success of MCPHS to Charlie Monahan," Went said. "He's Worcester's favorite son. He really jumpstarted the growth of new business downtown because he took the chance at buying up properties down- town for higher education." Acupuncture & beyond MCPHS isn't especially selective, admitting 84 percent of appli- cants, according to U.S. News & World Report, and last year, the Massachu- setts Board of Registration in Nursing warned MCPHS on concerns it had about oversight of its Boston nursing program. But the median starting salary of MCPHS graduates is $59,000, according to the U.S News & World Report, and the school says it has an 82-percent re- turn rate for first-year students. Money magazine named it the most transfor- mational college in the country for the 2018-19 school year based in large part on early-career earnings and price for students aer aid. Lately, MCPHS's growth has taken place not with new buildings but new programs. Pharmacy now accounts for only 30 percent of MCPHS's enrollment, as the school has expanded into dental hygiene, medical imaging, therapeutics and, most recently, acupunc- ture and optometry. e optometry program is one of only 23 in the country to be members of the Associ- ation of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, and one of just two in New England, along with the New England College of Optometry in Boston. Worcester has MCPHS's acupunc- ture program, which was moved from Newton, where the then-New England School of Acupuncture was based when MCPHS bought it in 2015. Monahan said he believes the program – which says it was the first in the United States, founded in 1974 – will rise in demand as more turn to non-opioid pain treat- ments. More programs will be on the way in Worcester, too, Monahan emphasized. "We're on a roll in Worcester," he said, "and we're going to keep rolling." MCPHS President Charles Monahan W

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