WESTFIELD STATE
CONTAINS STUDENT COSTS
he Westfield State College Board of Trustees voted
on Thursday night, in public session, to set the
cost of attending the college to $15,823 for room,
board, tuition and fees - a modest increase of $415
from last year. It will place the college’s costs
as seventh lowest among the nine State Colleges and
in total is approximately one-third of the price of
private institutions.
“We are fortunate to be able to continue to
celebrate our historic mission in complicated
economic times with a freshman class of more than a
thousand new students arriving in September – 93
percent of whom are from Massachusetts with 91
percent on some type of financial aid,” said
President Evan Dobelle.
In February 2010, MassINC, whose mission is to help
families make more informed decisions on college
choices and costs, named Westfield State College as
Massachusetts’ Best Value for graduation among all
of the 116 public and private colleges in the
Commonwealth with Harvard, Williams, UMass
(Amherst), and MIT rounding out the top five.
“We continue to be very proud and supportive of the
leadership provided by President Dobelle, for his
great vision and the successful completion of
another year at Westfield State, which is the crown
jewel in Massachusetts higher education” said WSC
Board of Trustee Chair Kevin Queenin.
