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School Location

  Assumption College
500 Salisbury St
Worcester, MA 016091296
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(508) 767-7000 Ext.
(508) 767-7158 Ext.
(888) 882-7786 Ext.

Type of institution: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Federal Aid: Institution has a Program Participation Agreement with the US Department of Education for eligible students to receive Pell Grants and other federal aid.
Degrees offered: Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate, Associate degree, Bachelor degree, Certificates/Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master's degree, Certificates/Post-Master's certificate
Carnegie classification: Master's Colleges and Universities (medium programs)
Number of students: 2,766 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$50.00

About this School
:This article is about the college in Worcester, Massachusetts. For other colleges of the same name see Assumption College (disambiguation) Assumption College is a private, 4-year, Catholic, Liberal Arts college located on 175 acres (708,000 m²) in Worcester, Massachusetts. Currently Assumption has an enrollment of approximately 2100 students. The college confers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Sciences degrees in its Undergraduate program, Master of Arts and Masters of Business Administration degrees in its Graduate program, and Associate's degree degrees through its Continuing Education program.
 
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$27,485$26,060$24,095
Out of State$27,485$26,060$24,095
Books and Supplies$850$850$850
On-Campus
Room and board$9,492$9,170$8,780
Other Expenses$1,530$1,530$1,530
Off Campus
Room and board$9,492$9,170$8,780
Other Expenses$1,530$1,530$1,530
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses$2,130$2,130$2,130

Financial aid 2005-2006

Financial aid to full-time, first-time undergraduate students

Type of AidPercentage of students receiving aidAverage amount of aid they received
Federal Grants (scholarship/fellowship) 10% $3,587
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 24% $1,603
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 92% $10,580
Loans to students 91% $5,405
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Legal Assistant + Paralegal
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Legal Assistant + Paralegal: A program that prepares individuals to perform research, drafting, investigatory, record-keeping and related administrative functions under the supervision of an attorney or court. Includes instruction in legal research, drafting legal docum...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Human Resources Management + Personnel Administration
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Human Resources Management + Personnel Administration, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to manage the development of human capital in organizations, and to provide related services to individuals and groups. Includes instruction in personnel and or...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Health + Health Care Administration + Management
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Health + Health Care Administration + Management: A program that prepares individuals to develop, plan, and manage health care operations and services within health care facilities and across health care systems. Includes instruction in planning, business management, fi...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Graphic Design
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Graphic Design: A program that prepares individuals to apply artistic and computer techniques to the interpretation of technical and commercial concepts. Includes instruction in computer-assisted art and design, printmaking, concepts sketching, technical drawing, color ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Gerontology
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Gerontology: A program that focuses on the human aging process and aged human populations, using the knowledge and methodologies of the social sciences, psychology and the biological and health sciences.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Criminal Justice + Safety Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Criminal Justice + Safety Studies: A program that focuses on the criminal justice system, its organizational components and processes, and its legal and public policy contexts. Includes instruction in criminal law and policy, police and correctional systems organization...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Business + Corporate Communications
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Business + Corporate Communications: A program that prepares individuals to function in an organization as a composer, editor and proofreader of business or business-related communications.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Accounting
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Less-than-1-year certificate Accounting: A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, ta...

Associate degree
Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Associate degree Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies: A program that is a structured combination of the arts, biological and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, emphasizing breadth of study. Includes instruction in independently designed, individualized, or regular programs.

Associate degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Associate degree Business Administration and Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and behavior, accountin...

Associate degree
Accounting
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Associate degree Accounting: A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, tax accounting...

Bachelor degree
Women's Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Women's Studies: A program that focuses on the history, sociology, politics, culture, and economics of women, and the development of modern feminism in relation to the roles played by women in different periods and locations in North America and the world. Programs may focus on lite...

Bachelor degree
Visual and Performing Arts
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Visual and Performing Arts, General: A general, undifferentiated program that focuses on the visual and performing arts and that may prepare individuals in any of the visual artistic media or performing disciplines.

Bachelor degree
Theology + Theological Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Theology + Theological Studies: A program that focuses on the beliefs and doctrine of a particular religious faith from the intramural point of view of that faith. Includes instruction in systematic theology, historical theology, moral theology, doctrinal studies, dogmatics, apologe...

Bachelor degree
Spanish Language and Literature
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Spanish Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the Spanish language and related dialects. Includes instruction in Spanish philology, Modern Castillan, various Latin American dialects, regional Spanish dialects, and applications in business, science/technology, and other ...

Bachelor degree
Sociology
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Sociology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human social institutions and social relationships. Includes instruction in social theory, sociological research methods, social organization and structure, social stratification and hierarchies, dynamics of social change,...

Bachelor degree
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
Other
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, Other: Any instructional program in rehabilitation and therapeutic professions not listed in the Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, General category.

Bachelor degree
Psychology
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Psychology, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of individual and collective behavior, the physical and environmental bases of behavior, and the analysis and treatment of behavior problems and disorders. Includes instruction in the principles of the vario...

Bachelor degree
Political Science and Government
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Political Science and Government, General: A general program that focuses on the systematic study of political institutions and behavior. Includes instruction in political philosophy, political theory, comparative government and politics, political parties and interest groups, publ...

Bachelor degree
Philosophy
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Philosophy: A program that focuses on ideas and their logical structure, including arguments and investigations about abstract and real phenomena. Includes instruction in logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, symbolism, and history of philosophy, and applications to ...

Bachelor degree
Music
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Music, General: A general program that focuses on the introductory study and appreciation of music and the performing arts. Includes instruction in music, dance, and other performing arts media.

Bachelor degree
Mathematics
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Mathematics, General: A general program that focuses on the analysis of quantities, magnitudes, forms, and their relationships, using symbolic logic and language. Includes instruction in algebra, calculus, functional analysis, geometry, number theory, logic, topology and other mathe...

Bachelor degree
Marketing + Marketing Management
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Marketing + Marketing Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to undertake and manage the process of developing consumer audiences and moving products from producers to consumers. Includes instruction in buyer behavior and dynamics, principle of marketing ...

Bachelor degree
Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies: A program that is a structured combination of the arts, biological and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, emphasizing breadth of study. Includes instruction in independently designed, individualized, or regular programs.

Bachelor degree
Latin American Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Latin American Studies: A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more of the Hispanic peoples of the North and South American Continents outside Canada and the United States, including the study of the Pre-Columbian period and the flo...

Bachelor degree
Italian Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Italian Studies: A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of modern Italy and its predecessors on the Italian Peninsula, including overseas migrations of Italian peoples.

Bachelor degree
International Economics
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree International Economics: A program that focuses on the systematic study and analysis of international commercial behavior and trade policy. Includes instruction in international trade theory, tariffs and quotas, commercial policy, trade factor flows, international finance and invest...

Bachelor degree
International Business + Trade + Commerce
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree International Business + Trade + Commerce: A program that prepares individuals to manage international businesses and/or business operations. Includes instruction in the principles and processes of export sales, trade controls, foreign operations and related problems, monetary issue...

Bachelor degree
International + Global Studies
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree International + Global Studies: A program that focuses on global and international issues from the perspective of the social sciences, social services, and related fields.

Bachelor degree
History
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree History, General: A program that focuses on the general study and interpretation of the past, including the gathering, recording, synthesizing and criticizing of evidence and theories about past events. Includes instruction in historiography; historical research methods; studies of ...

Bachelor degree
German Language and Literature
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree German Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the German language and related dialects as used in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, neighboring European countries containing German-speaking minorities, and elsewhere. Includes instruction in German philology; Old, Middle, an...

Bachelor degree
Geography
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Geography: A program that focuses on the systematic study of the spatial distribution and interrelationships of people, natural resources, plant and animal life. Includes instruction in historical and political geography, cultural geography, economic and physical geography, regional...

Bachelor degree
French Language and Literature
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree French Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the French language and related dialects and creoles. Includes instruction in French philology, Metropolitan French, Canadian French, African and Caribbean Creoles, French regional dialects, and applications in business, scie...

Bachelor degree
Foreign Languages and Literatures
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Foreign Languages and Literatures, General: A general program that focuses on one or more modern foreign languages that is not specific as to the name of the language(s) studied; that is otherwise undifferentiated; or that introduces students to language studies at the basic/elementa...

Bachelor degree
Environmental Science
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Environmental Science: A program that focuses on the application of biological, chemical, and physical principles to the study of the physical environment and the solution of environmental problems, including subjects such as abating or controlling environmental pollution and degrada...

Bachelor degree
English Language and Literature
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree English Language and Literature, General: A general program that focuses on the English language, including its history, structure and related communications skills; and the literature and culture of English-speaking peoples.

Bachelor degree
Economics
Other
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Economics, Other: Any instructional program in economics not listed in the Economics, General category.

Bachelor degree
Economics
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Economics, General: A general program that focuses on the systematic study of the production, conservation and allocation of resources in conditions of scarcity, together with the organizational frameworks related to these processes. Includes instruction in economic theory, micro- a...

Bachelor degree
Computer Science
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Computer Science: A general program that focuses on computers, computing problems and solutions, and the design of computer systems and user interfaces from a scientific perspective. Includes instruction in the principles of computational science, and computing theory; computer hardw...

Bachelor degree
Communication Studies + Speech Communication and Rhetoric
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Communication Studies + Speech Communication and Rhetoric: A program that focuses on the scientific, humanistic, and critical study of human communication in a variety of formats, media, and contexts. Includes instruction in the theory and practice of interpersonal, group, organizat...

Bachelor degree
Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General.
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General: A general program that focuses on the literary culture of the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the Greek and Latin languages and literatures and their development prior to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Bachelor degree
Chemistry
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Chemistry, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of the composition and behavior of matter, including its micro- and macro-structure, the processes of chemical change, and the theoretical description and laboratory simulation of these phenomena.

Bachelor degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Business Administration and Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and behavior, accounting...

Bachelor degree
Biotechnology
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Biotechnology: A program that focuses on the application of the biological sciences, biochemistry, and genetics to the preparation of new and enhanced agricultural, environmental, clinical, and industrial products, including the commercial exploitation of microbes, plants, and animal...

Bachelor degree
Biology + Biological Sciences
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Biology + Biological Sciences, General: A general program of biology at the introductory, basic level or a program in biology or the biological sciences that is undifferentiated as to title or content. Includes instruction in general biology and programs covering a variety of biolog...

Bachelor degree
Art History
Criticism and Conservation
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Art History, Criticism and Conservation: A program that focuses on the study of the historical development of art as social and intellectual phenomenon, the analysis of works of art, and art conservation. Includes instruction in the theory of art, art history research methods, conno...

Bachelor degree
Anthropology
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Anthropology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleontology a...

Bachelor degree
Accounting
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Bachelor degree Accounting: A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, tax accounting,...

Certificates/Postbaccalaureate certificate
Health + Medical Preparatory Programs
Other
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Postbaccalaureate certificate Health + Medical Preparatory Programs, Other: Any instructional program in health and medical first-professional preparation not listed in the Health/Medical Preparatory Programs, General category.

Master's degree
Special Education and Teaching
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Master's degree Special Education and Teaching, General: A general program that focuses on the design and provision of teaching and other educational services to children or adults with special learning needs or disabilities, and that may prepare individuals to function as special education teachers...

Master's degree
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
Other
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Master's degree Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, Other: Any instructional program in rehabilitation and therapeutic professions not listed in the Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, General category.

Master's degree
Counseling Psychology
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Master's degree Counseling Psychology: A program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of psychological counseling, involving the rendering of therapeutic services to individuals and groups experiencing psychological problems and exhibiting distress symptoms. Includes ...

Master's degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Master's degree Business Administration and Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and behavior, accounting...

Certificates/Post-Master's certificate
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
Other
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Post-Master's certificate Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, Other: Any instructional program in rehabilitation and therapeutic professions not listed in the Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, General category.

Certificates/Post-Master's certificate
Counseling Psychology
Assumption College

General Description for:
Assumption College Post-Master's certificate Counseling Psychology: A program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of psychological counseling, involving the rendering of therapeutic services to individuals and groups experiencing psychological problems and exhibiting distress symptoms. ...

 
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