Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has picked an alumnus and business executive as its first entrepreneur-in-residence, a role the...

Mary Lou Retelle, the executive vice president at Anna Maria College, will become interim president of the...

Gone are the days when high school students chose a college solely based on the quality of sports and academic programs, and perhaps even the quality of the party scene. It seems that millennials — the generation born between the early 1980s and early 2000s — also like their campuses to be energy efficient.

The UMass ALS Champion Fund has been renamed in honor of former governor Paul Cellucci, U Mass Medical School Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced Thursday.

Quinsigamond Community College broke ground today on a $23 million, 30,000-square-foot engineering and technology building.

The University of Massachusetts system has added 23 new online degree and certificate programs to meet increasing demand for online education, according to Shrewsbury-based UMassOnline, the system's Internet learning consortium.

With the costs of college climbing, Worcester Polytechnic Institute students may be making a worthwhile investment before they graduate, according to a ranking by PayScale.com.

As prospective college students and their families hit their limit for federally-guaranteed loans and turn to the private market to pay for school, they will encounter a new and increasingly popular lending source: credit unions.

A former executive at Google who is also an expert on cybersecurity, privacy and public policy will join the Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty as a professor of cybersecurity policy, the school announced.

As Worcester Polytechnic Institute's first female president, Laurie Leshin's pending arrival in June has been hailed as a boon for generating enthusiasm about careers in science and technology for women.