Local Students Receive Higher Education Honors

These Swampscott residents are being recognized by their respective institutions of higher learning.

• Vanessa Popeo was named to Becker College’s Dean’s List for the Spring 2015 semester.
• Amisha Divadkar earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stonehill College.
• Jillian Hebert earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stonehill College

Becker College is ranked by The Princeton Review as one of the best 379 colleges in the U.S. With a 99 percent graduate placement rate for employment or further study, Becker serves more than 2,000 students from across the country and around the world. Becker offers a wide range of quality degree programs--from nursing to veterinary science, and a variety of adult learning options--that prepare graduates for the challenges and entrepreneurial opportunities of the 21st century. Becker’s undergraduate video game design program has been top-ranked by The Princeton Review for five consecutive years, and is one of only two institutions in New England, and one of five nationally, to maintain this longstanding distinction.

Stonehill is a selective Catholic college located near Boston on a beautiful 384-acre campus in Easton, Massachusetts. With a student-faculty ratio of 13:1, the College engages over 2,500 students in 80+ rigorous academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and pre-professional fields. The Stonehill community helps students to develop the knowledge, skills, and character to meet their professional goals and to live lives of purpose and integrity.