Quinsigamond Community College

Colleges in Central Massachusetts are due to receive an estimated $100 million among them under the latest federal pandemic aid program.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester is freezing its tuition and fees for 2021, the school announced on Thursday, citing concerns about how the coronavirus pandemic has financially impacted its current and future students.

Fitchburg State University is planning to have a fully in-person fall semester, while Worcester's Quinsigamond Community College is expecting a return to normalcy after a more than a year of remote learning.

When the professionals who would become WBJ’s 2021 Business Leaders of the Year started their years anew in January 2020, they could have had no idea the past 15 months would end up like they did. Yet, each of them in their own way, found a path for their organizations to thrive.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester has received a $197,183 Kenneth J. Donnelly Workforce Success Grant, which the school will use to help pay for unemployed residents who wish to take part in the administrative medical professional program.

As the nation reels in the wake of a violent and deadly mob breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, leadership in and around the Central Mass. business community condemned the violence and called for healing.

Quinsigamond Community College will offer free nurse assistant and home health aide training and administrative medical professional programs next year, thanks to grant funding.

Quinsigamond Community College's online associate degree program offers America's fifth best return on investment, according to a higher education rankings site.

Enrollment at public colleges in Central Massachusetts has dropped substantially, including by more than 10% at Framingham State University and Mount Wachusett Community College, a trend echoed statewide as higher education has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the world of higher education are becoming clearer, as national enrollment is dropping among graduates and undergraduates, according to a new report from The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, looking at national fall semester data, through Sept. 24.