You can be among the first to study in our Western New England’s $40 million Center for the Sciences and Pharmacy opened in January 2011.
Western New England College offers several joint degree programs. The school’s 3+3 law program is a six-year course of study that leads to both an undergraduate and a law degree. Similarly, students can complete a five-year program leading to both an undergraduate degree and an MBA, a MSA, a MSEM, MSEE or a MSME. The college offers the only program in the country that combines biomedical engineering with the law, a six-year curriculum that leads to both an undergraduate and a law degree.
The honors program at Western New England College gives students the opportunity to explore subjects in greater depth, interact with honors students across majors, and study topics that cross disciplines.
For over twenty-five years, Western New England College has set aside one day a year as Lecture Day, inviting students and the public to attend lectures and seminars exploring important topics facing society. To enhance the learning experience for students, many professors require students to attend and later participate in classroom discussions or write papers based on select lectures.
Academic Programs: Accounting, Arts and Entertainment Management, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Business Information Systems, Chemistry, Communication (Concentrations in Journalism, Media Theory and Production, Professional Communications, and Public Relations), Computer Science, Creative Writing, Criminal Justice (Concentrations in Crime and Society, Criminal Investigation, and Terrorism and Homeland Security), Economics, Education (Elementary, Secondary), Electrical Engineering (Concentrations in Computer, Electrical, and Green), English, Finance, Five-Year Bachelor/MBA, Five-Year Bachelor/MSA, Five-Year Bachelor/MSEE, Five-Year Bachelor/MSEM, Five-Year Bachelor/MSME, Forensic Biology, Forensic Chemistry, General Business (Concentrations in Entrepreneurship, International Business, and Sustainability Management), History, Information Technology, Industrial Engineering, Integrated Professional Science Studies, International Studies (Concentrations in European Area, Developing Societies, Economics and Commerce), Law and Society, 3+3 Law Program, Mathematical Sciences, Neuroscience, Management, Marketing, Marketing Communication/Advertising, Mechanical Engineering (Concentrations in Green, Manufacturing, and Mechanical), Philosophy, Political Science, Pre-pharmacy, Psychology, Six-Year BME/Law, Social Work, Sociology, Sport Management, and Sustainability (Concentrations in Communication, International Development, Management and Marketing, and Public Administration).
VIBRANT COMMUNITIES
With so many opportunities to get involved, it’s no wonder Western New England students are so well prepared for “real world” experiences…
Inspiring Involvement
With over sixty student clubs and organizations, and a variety of athletic and creative outlets to choose from, many students find niches in appropriate co-curricular activities—from student government and athletics to the student newspaper (The Westerner), the cheer leading club, the Historical Society, the outing club, and many others. In their first year, students can join the Emerging Leaders program, where they explore personal strengths and test their capacities for leadership.
Opportunities for volunteering abound. Students can participate in the America Reads programs in which students read to young children in local schools; Helping Hands, a part of Campus Ministry; Make a Difference Day, when students volunteer in homeless shelters and soup kitchens; and alternative spring breaks, when students work with Habitat for Humanity or other organizations. Western New England College students also volunteer to teach computer skills. Sports teams also get involved in projects such as distributing free books and helping with city beautification.
The college’s setting in Springfield, Massachusetts, offers access to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Six Flags New England, The MassMutual Center, home to concerts and a minor-league hockey team, several museums, and a number of libraries. The campus is ninety minutes by car from Boston and sixty miles from skiing in Vermont. Western New England College is also part of a coalition of eight colleges in the Springfield area.
Three-quarters of Western New England College students live on campus, and many opt to live in themed housing, where they share housing with students with similar interests in academics, fine arts, sports, and wellness and health, as well as interests in other areas.
SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES
Western New England College’s more than 41,000 alumni have a high rate of success thanks to an education that integrates liberal and professional learning. Our graduates go on to prestigious graduate schools or immediate entry into their chosen fields…
Skills to Succeed
Many Western New England College students are required to complete projects that serve as stepping-stones to real jobs. One student, for example, made a video for a local school for the deaf; she submitted the video to a local affiliate of ABC-TV and was offered and accepted an on-air reporter’s job, while studying as a full-time student. Similarly, a mechanical engineering student who worked with United Technology on jet engines received an offer from NASA, after seeing her work, to pay for her Ph.D. degree. Western New England College also boasts a former biomedical engineering student who developed an apparatus that surgeons were using a year later in open-heart surgeries.
Many students gain practical experience in internships. The college has a partnership with a public radio station in nearby Albany, New York— students serve as reporters of the station, producing news segments aired throughout the Northeast. The station houses its Pioneer Valley News Bureau on campus.
Through its CareerCenter, the college nurtures a network of alumni who serve as mentors for current students. Many alumni come back to campus to talk with students in classes. In engineering classes, for example, practicing engineers help students get a real-world perspective.
Western New England College’s nearly 41,000 alumni have a high rate of success. Graduates go on to prestigious graduate schools or to jobs in their chosen fields. Western New England College alumni are the CEOs, CFOs, and presidents of many of the region’s banking and financial institutions; senior-level engineers at major corporations such as UTC and Pratt & Whitney; leaders in the law-enforcement community; managers of business strategies at corporations such as Chubb, Big Lots, Hasbro, and MassMutual Financial Group; and experts who make a difference every day in the sciences, health care, education, and social services sectors.
FAST FACTS
Western New England College is a four-year private, independent, coeducational college founded in 1919.
Web site http://www.wnec.edu
Location Springfield, Massachusetts–90 miles from Boston.
Student Profile Fall 2009: 2,480 undergraduate students (60% male 40% female); 28 states and territories, 57% students out of state; 13% minority.
Faculty Profile 188 full-time faculty. 15:1 student/faculty ratio. Average class size is 19.
Residence Life Highly residential: 85% of freshmen live on campus.
Athletics NCAA Division III, The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC). 19 varsity sports (10 men’s: baseball, basketball, cross-country; football; golf; ice hockey; lacrosse; soccer; tennis; wrestling; 9 women’s: basketball, cross-country, field hockey, lacrosse,