Lasell College in Auburdale is converting to a university, the Boston Globe reports.
“The change of name makes people recognize that the institution has graduate programs who might not have known otherwise. And it probably is done in part hoping that this designation confers prestige,” said Virginia Shapiro, a Boston University political science professor who is working on a history of US higher educations. “Whether that is true is dubious.”
Here’s a video announcement from Lasell….
Changing to “university” can make a big difference for international students. As the article says much further down, in many other countries “college” is more of a trade school so they won’t see places called colleges as providing higher education.