If your goal is to secure a job in the field of your choice when you graduate college, then Becker…read morehas the full-service experience for you. Resident students may choose to live in an historic neighborhood in the heart of Worcester, Mass., the second largest city in New England, or keep a slower pace in beautiful rural Leicester, Mass. Visit online at www.becker.edu. The student-to-faculty ratio is 18-to-1. Becker faculty are professionals in their fields who take every student's success personally. For extra help, visit the professional and peer tutors at the Center for Academic Success. Becker is known for its programs in Nursing, Business, Veterinary Science, Education, ABA (applied behavioral analysis), Sports Management, Interior Design, and Criminal Justice. Exciting new programs include Computer Game Design, Computer Game Programming and Development, and Equine Studies. Adults considering a degree can find a home at the Center for Accelerated and Professional Studies, which offers a BS in Business Management and a BA in preparation for teacher licensure. I welcome students to post reviews of their experiences at Becker! Our president, with decades of experience at other colleges, calls Becker students "the nicest young people I've ever met." Becker has over 19,000 alumni, from all over the world, and many say they credit their Becker education to their professional success. --Sandy Lashin-Curewitz, Director of Communications

Wonder what will become of this place? Does anyone know who bought the property? Please…read morerespond! I am looking into this for a client. Thanks!

A hidden gem in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester. I've been here a few times to attend…read morerecruiting and outreach events. The campus is a beautiful oasis in the midst of a fascinating eclectic neighborhood. The vibe on the campus is liberal and welcoming. Every person I have encountered, whether faculty, staff or students, has been friendly and helpful. Not sure I'd be willing to pay actual tuition for a degree, but for a campus to attend events, it is top notch.

Played a tournament on this field. Great turf field to play on. Lights for the night time games…read more Plenty of restaurants around the field.

I have an interesting insight into Dynamy and how amazing it is. My experience with Dynamy began…read morealmost ten years ago when I hosted my first intern from the program at a psychiatric facility I was overseeing. From my first experience with Dynamy, I could tell they truly cared about the students, the community and those they worked with. I loved it so much, that I eventually went to work for Dynamy. I spent 4 1/2 years there working with students, overseeing residential life and strengthening our bonds in the community. The culture, team and students made this easily some of the most memorable and enjoyable moments of my professional life. Fortunately and unfortunately, I moved on to pursue my bigger career aspirations. However, in my new role as a Director for a local Worcester technology company, I have made sure to maintain the connection to Dynamy. We host at least two interns per semester and the communication, follow through and genuine caring of the Dynamy staff toward the students and internship sponsors is still astounding. We love working with Dynamy and the interns have helped transform the way we are able to do business. Students work on web design, graphic design, content creation and more. Although I don't work at Dynamy anymore, I still consider it a second home. If you or your son or daughter are considering a gap year program, then Dynamy should be the first place you check out.

Our son just complete a full year experience at Dynamy. I cannot say enough positive about the…read moreprogram. It was just the right balance of support for growth in independence with scaffolding. Marcus had a great internship experience and learned much about himself as a member of the community in the process.

Graduated from here with a Theatre degree; the arts department is still new and growing, but for…read morethe size of it, I felt like I received a good education. I'm currently back for a Business Administration degree. Classes that are popular end up going over the allotted amount of seats, and as someone who struggled with a physical disability, this makes going to my classes stressful. I'm drowning in student loans so that I can play musical chairs in some of my most important classes? Also, parking on campus is like playing the lottery. I get there at 8 am. I refuse to go a semester without an 8 am class, because I know if I show up after 8 am there isn't any parking left. Expect to spend time frustrated in the registrar's office at least once per semester. Most of the professors I've had are pretty understanding about the price of the books, and if you don't buy them in advance, they'll try to find discounts for you or older editions if possible - but then you risk getting 3 weeks into class and not having the book yet, so it's a pick-your-poison scenario. Overall, I'm happy that I went to school here. But sometimes I have to remind myself, "you get what you paid for."

I was so happy to go to this school to get ahead in life and BOY was I disappointed. Do yourself a…read morefavor and find another school. My experience at QCC even blew this shithole out of the water. The advisor you get will not know your name or even try to. You will get tickets for parking when there isn't any parking and you have to resort to parking wrong to make a test. This place should be ashamed in so many levels. Seriously negative 5 stars man. Off to private school I go.

I never really thought about doing a review for a school/college until I noticed that one of the…read moretop reviews of the day was for Northeastern. Years removed from WPI, I still visit regularly and keep in touch with the many people that I became close to in my tenure at WPI. I was a student hall director/resident adviser for four years and feel like that gave me good perspective on what residents halls are worth staying at and which are worth avoiding. Basically the classic residents halls (not built within the last 5-years) break down as follows: Morgan/Daniels - Renovated in 2000 or so mostly 2-person and 3-person rooms, this hall was original built to be two person rooms, large floors Morgan is around 50 ppl per wing, Daniels 60 per floor, good for people who like to have a lot of acquaintances. Morgan is a clear view Hall, Daniels is more broken up and usually what happens is that three/four rooms clustered together in one area on the floor in Daniels become friends while Morgan with the open Hallway gives you more options. Riley was last renovated in 1995 or so, larger rooms, 5-6 people to the room suites, these are better for people that would like to have a close nit group of friends in lieu of acquaintances, the setting forces you to be close to your roommates which can be good or bad if your personalities don't match. daniels, morgan and Riley are all located on the quad and the closest to the campus. Stoddard is 3-buildings in a quad area, all floors are divided in the center by a bathroom and common area, there are 6 rooms on either side of the bathroom, the total number of people on the floor are smaller, usually there are a high number of exchange, long distances and foreign students in these buildings because these people are too far away to look at these dorms built in 1976, I don't believe these buildings have been renovated to date. Floor set up and numbers on the floor are good for developing a tight nit community. Common area in the center of the three buildings seems like it would/could be beneficial but seems like it is rarely used. Institute is removed from the campus in the vicinity of the fraternities, freshman assigned here usually complain about the walk to classes and the noise on weekends. The hallways are a little tight and the rooms are a little smaller, set up is akin to the combination of Morgan Hall and Stoddard in a sense. Founders was built in the mid to late 1980's i believe and has not seen a full renovation to date since being installed, larger suites than Riley with an added bonus of a common room good for groups of people going to college together that don't want to meet people outside of their group of friends. For classes the best recommendation that anyone can give you is to go to every class, sign up early for classes online in the event that you need to change and always sign up for ADLN options for classes even if you are on campus. The reasons for these area 1. some professors have a quiz that basically just consists of taking attendance, pretty easy to score 100%, pretty stupid to get a 0%. 2. Sign up for classes early because the popular classes and professors always sign up fast. In some instances required classes that are not your entry level requirements fill up almost immediately. 3. Sign up for ADLN because you always have the option to walk in and sit down in class if you fall behind but then also get the luxury to re-watch videos or even not attend the live class if you are unavailable. Construction in the area has been going on the for past 3-4 years which has made the already difficult parking situation on campus even more difficult, if you can avoid bringing a car onto campus and just walk or carpool with friends. Typically finding parking is easiest if you commute from WPI if you come in the morning and stay for that day. Word of warning if you are a parent, ALL visitor parking needs to be registered with Campus Police or you will be ticketed. Like most things in life, you will get out of WPI what you put into it and is not for everyone. There are a lot of programs, organizations, clubs, sports, activities and job opportunities available but like programs any where they typically don't come looking for you, so seek them out, try and go to a lot of things at least once to get an idea if it is something you would like to do and give things a chance. No one ends up enjoying college but just hanging out in there room all the time playing video games. Terms are 7-week terms, 4 per year, each term has different scheduling constraints based on the term, ie Calc 1 is only available A-term (fall). 10-day breaks in between terms with a month long break for x-mas (winter). Not many classes offered in E-term, like wise is a 7-week schedule. Typically 3-classes are taken per term. You can take 3-educational classes and one gym class a term without getting charged extra for the extra credits (full time student tuition).

Very nice school to visit if you're going into the sciences. They gave a very informative…read moreinformation session where the really nice tour guide explaining about the different buildings and expectations. Some of the buildings were old and some of them were new... it's just nice to know that they put some money into the college. They were really helpful to show me to the information session even though we were late and it was raining out.

I took my first college course at Quinsigamond at 15 years of age. There were only three night…read moreclasses left so I ended up taking speech and communications! We had to give the first speech in the auditorium. That cured my fear of public speaking for life! I went on to graduate high school at 16. Then I attended Quinsigamond from 16-18 years of age. I joined student government and became secretary. My second year, I became student government president and was Valor Victorian at graduation. That course in Speech really paid off! I went on to U-Mass Amherst and have been teaching in Florida for over 25 years. If I can do it, anyone that puts their mind to it can end up successful after studying here. I visited this summer when I was home. I'm so impressed with how much the campus has grown and how beautiful the property is. I was impressed with the food bank. The quality of the food that they have was amazing with fresh vegetables and meat. The cafeteria and the bookstore are still in the same location. I was able to buy a T-shirt, even though it was summertime. It was wonderful to walk the halls and climb the stairs where I studied so long ago.

My kid was trying to enroll as a guest student during break to take an extra science course he…read morecould transfer to his home school. This place is beyond dismal! "Advisor" who contacted my kid via email, provided inaccurate information that my kid followed to the letter, only to receive contradicting emails from the registrar's office and business office. They want money for a class he is not even being permitted to enroll in! WHAT?!!!!!! Emails were not only written to try to drop the course on the deadline (as the registrar's office does NOT answer phones during their "business hours"), but voice messages were left as well. He COULD NOT drop on his account. NOT PERMITTED. Screenshots are valuable, and I highly recommend CYA to any student. Clearly, this organization not only hires unprofessional and incompetent people, but taxpayers $$$$$$ should not be going to this "institution of learning." Anything but... RUN, RUN, RUN !!!!!!

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Would give 1 star if that were an option. I went here for a week long conference focused on…read moreeducators teaching at Catholic institutions of higher education. Stayed on campus in Figge hall. Bed was like a concrete slab. The group was told that we couldn't use their fitness center because we were "outsiders". Environment was not welcoming.

LIFT HIGH THE CROSS!!!…read more Grant G. is one of my fellow Class of 2010 classmates, and I can not say it better. Holy Cross is the bomb. We are THE top Jesuit school in New England (never mind Boston College, because they are good at sports), academically, we are equals to the Ivy Leagues and Georgetown. A fun fact for those that don't know: in the days of religious intolerance in Massachusetts, Holy Cross was not allowed to confer degrees because it is a Catholic institution. Bishop Fenwick, the founder of Holy Cross and Georgetown, signed the diplomas and they had to say Georgetown even though the students were studying at Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Anyway, HC continues to be one of the United States' top college's academically and it shows from the caliber of professors and the students. In 2014, Holy Cross jumped the rankings in US News & World Report and was ranked 25th in the US among liberal arts colleges. In PayScale's 2012-2013 study, Holy Cross ranked 7th in the nation amongst liberal arts schools for mid-career salary potential. HC has consistently been ranked by Barron's Guide to US Colleges and Universities as one of 50 of the ¨most academically demanding colleges across America¨, sharing this ranking with the Ivies, BC, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. The Princeton Review also gave Holy Cross a 98/99 academic rating, where only 5 other colleges were awarded a higher rating. Holy Cross flourishes in fellowships and grants such as Watson, Fullbright, and Rhodes. HC professors are a critical piece of this puzzle to the student's success and for this, we are grateful! They are such a part of our success that they will become parts of our lives past Mount St. James and a part of our families. Thank you, Holy Cross. In Hoc Signo Vinces! I know that for attending Holy Cross, I have become a better person. I have left with Jesuit ideals and high caliber teachings that I will never forget. -Andrea D., Class of 2010