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HARTFORD, Conn., July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ If you re a recent college graduate, you know it s a hard, competitive world when it comes to starting a career in your desired industry. However, some colleges can give their graduates a leg up thanks to the relationships they ve forged with business and industry in booming sectors.
Graduates need to ensure that the first job they land after college is a high-quality position. There s a lot of income at stake. In fact, as CNBC notes, Students who have a desirable job lined up after college are more than twice as likely to be earning $60,000 a year more than those graduates who took between two and 12 months.
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By Livia Gershon
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When Becker College in Worcester announced it will be closing its doors in August, the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute had a big question to answer. The statewide center for video game entrepreneurship, known as MassDiGi, had been based at the college since its start a decade ago. Where would it go now?
“We were flattered by the range of institutions that were interested in talking with us,” said CEO Timothy Loew. “We had opportunities across the commonwealth, and really great ones.”
State labor department filing details layoffs as Becker College closes for good
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
WORCESTER Becker College will lay off 329 people by the end of June as it ceases operations, according to a notice posted Friday with the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.
Of those 329 positions, 245 jobs are in Worcester and 84 in Leicester, according to the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining (WARN) Act website. The effective date of the layoffs is June 30.
Becker College’s board voted in March to close at the end of the current academic year, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, declining enrollment, rising costs and a too-small endowment.