Worcester Business Journal

46 Worcester Business Journal | Book of Lists 2018 | wbjournal.com F O C U S E D U C A T I O N Top colleges and universities Ranked by full-time enrollment, fall 2017 School Full-time enrollment (undergrad and grad) fall 2017 Full-time faculty/ part-time faculty FTE employees Annual tuition in state (out of state) Head of school Year founded 1 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road, Worcester 01609-2280 508-831-5000 • www.wpi.edu 5,150 404 83 1,283 $47,988 undergrad; $1,457 per credit hour graduate Laurie Leshin president 1865 2 Fitchburg State University 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg 01420 978-665-3000 • www.fitchburgstate.edu 4,772 208 407 542 $970 (a) ($7,050) (b) Richard S. Lapidus president 1894 3 Worcester State University 486 Chandler St., Worcester 01602 508-929-8000 • www.worcester.edu 4,317 211 230 563 $970 (c) $7,050 (c) Barry M. Maloney president 1874 4 Framingham State University 100 State St., Framingham 01701 508-620-1220 • www.framingham.edu 3,687 197 137 590 $970 (c) ($7,050) (c) F. Javier Cevallos president 1839 5 College of the Holy Cross 1 College St., Worcester 01610 508-793-2011 • www.holycross.edu 3,020 278 40 1,047 $49,980 Rev. Philip L. Boroughs S.J. president 1843 6 Quinsigamond Community College 670 W. Boylston St., Worcester 01606 508-853-2300 • www.qcc.edu 2,706 (d) 141 409 1,107 $197 per credit hour ($403 per credit hour) Luis Pedraja president 1963 7 Mount Wachusett Community College 444 Green St., Gardner 01440 978-632-6600 • www.mwcc.edu 2,338 73 285 896 $212 per credit hour ($417 per credit hour) James Vander Hooven president 1963 8 Clark University 950 Main St., Worcester 01610 508-793-7711 • www.clarku.edu 2,213 211 142 696 $44,050 David P. Angel president 1887 9 Assumption College 500 Salisbury St., Worcester 01609 508-767-7000 • www.assumption.edu 2,081 149 153 534 $38,850 Francesco C. Cesareo president 1904 10 MCPHS University (e) 19 Foster St., Worcester 01608 508-890-8855 • www.mcphs.edu 1,606 99 112 228 $27,000-$50,250 Charles F. Monahan Jr. president 1823 11 Becker College 61 Sever St., Worcester 01609 508-791-9241 • www.becker.edu 1,532 48 219 311 $34,650 Nancy Crimmin president 1784 12 Nichols College 129 Center Road, Dudley 01571 508-213-1560 • www.nichols.edu 1,235 50 75 202 $33,800 (f) Susan West Engelkemeyer president 1815 13 Dean College 99 Main St., Franklin 02038 877-879-3326 • www.dean.edu 1,112 29 100 236 $38,390 Paula M. Rooney president 1865 14 Anna Maria College 50 Sunset Lane, Paxton 01612 508-849-3330 • www.annamaria.edu 1,089 40 153 180 $34,800 Mary Lou Retelle president 1946 15 University of Massachusetts Medical School 55 Lake Ave. North, Worcester 01655 508-856-8989 • www.umassmed.edu 1,041 1,347 396 N/A $13,500-$34,600 (g) ($18,450-$59,400) (h) Michael F. Collins senior vice president for health sciences, chancellor, University of Massachusetts Medical School 1962 16 Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University 200 Westboro Road, North Grafton 01536 508-839-5302 • vet.tufts.edu 442 (i) 103 15 524 $49,086 (j) ($53,958) (j) Deborah T. Kochevar dean and Henry and Lois Foster professor 1978 17 Bay Path University (k) 1 Picker Road, Sturbridge 01566 800-495-7284 • www.baypath.edu 90 0 23 8 $34,225 Carol A. Leary president 1897 Thanks in part to a rising demand for STEM education, no Central Massachusetts four-year institution has grown as much in the past decade as Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Enrollment rose by 49 percent since 2007, hitting 5,150 last fall. Thanks in part to a strong economy now, fewer people are going back to school to switch careers as they did during the Great Recession. That means enrollment has taken a tumble at Mount Wachusett Community College and Quinsigamond Community College. Other Central Mass. colleges have seen drastic changes in enrollment in not only the past decade but in just the last few years. Clark University in Worcester, which enrolled 3,163 in the fall of 2015, dropped down to 2,213 last fall. That's a 30-per- cent drop in just two years. Assumption College in Worcester has also seen its stu- dent body shrink. The Catholic school had an enrollment in 2007 of 2,347 but just 2,081 last year, an 11-percent drop. The biggest change, percent- age-wise, has been at the small downtown Worcester school MCPHS University, with its Worcester enrollment spiking in the past decade from just 581 to 1,606. - Grant Welker Student bodies largely shrinking WPI President Laurie Leshin

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