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Wentworth Institute of Technology to Drop Pre-Calculus Admissions Requirement for STEM Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those looking to apply to Wentworth are required to have four years of English, a mathematics course on the level of Algebra II, and one laboratory science course under their belt. high school graduates in 2019 (40%) had completed precalculus/mathematical analysis. And only 16% of graduates had completed calculus that year.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.