The campus was situated within the town common, which in the 18th century, consisted of a tavern, a meetinghouse and the first home built in Leicester, now known as the May House.

Colonel Ebenezer Crafts of Sturbridge and Jacob Davis of Charlton saw a need to provide schooling for children of modest families who lived in Central Massachusetts.

After Becker's successes in the Midwest, he moved east, managing a school in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, before arriving in Worcester to lead the business department at Hinman College.

The college offered courses in bookkeeping, penmanship, arithmetic, shorthand and typing for both men and women.

In his free time he enjoyed hunting in Maine, a hobby showcased by two large moose heads that adorned the Becker reception office until the early 1930s.

Graduates excelled in the counting rooms of Worcester's manufacturing and mercantile establishments and on their civil service examinations.

In 1974, Becker and Leicester began working together to expand academic offerings and provide broader social and recreational opportunities for their students.

The centre was established in partnership with the Seven Hills Foundation and will focus on identifying real-world social problems and creating innovative, self-sustaining solutions to transform lives and communities.

In March 2021, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education said the college's financial situation had become "sufficiently uncertain" to threaten its long-term viability.

The statement added that the department "believes that the institution is unlikely to sustain full operations through the next academic year".

They said that because of losses sustained during the COVID-19 pandemic, the college would have had to severely curtail its programs, sell assets and take on additional debt to stay open past the end of the spring 2021 semester.

[2] In May 2021, the college announced plans to lay off 329 employees at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year, at which point it closed permanently.

The Master of Science degrees in International Business and Organisational Psychology were discontinued at the end of the academic year 2019/20.

[13] After Becker College closed in 2021, MassDigi continued to operate, from a new home at the nearby Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Classes are held in the Arnold C. Weller Academic Building (former site of the Bancroft School) and the Health Science Center on the Sever Street Quad, as well as in the Design Center (Graphic, Interior and Game) on Cedar Street, which also houses a Mac Lab and motion-capture suite.

Lining Roxbury Street are office buildings, campus police and the Collaborative Learning Center, in former homes and typical "three-deckers" for which Worcester is famous.

Behind those halls, on Old Main Street, are the Leicester gymnasium and the Lenfest Animal Health Center, the college's veterinary teaching clinic, which was open to the public for appointments during the academic year.

His wife was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) as well as an outspoken proponent for women's suffrage.

A teaching facility that gives students the opportunity to assess a crime scene, in terms of understanding the nature of physical evidence, located on the Worcester campus.

The soccer, tennis, field hockey, golf, basketball, baseball, volleyball and softball teams competed in the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC).

The women's ice hockey team, which was introduced in the fall of 2014, was a member of Eastern College Athletic Conference Northeast (ECAC).