History
Bay Path College was founded in 1897 in Springfield, Massachusetts as a coeducational institute offering business teacher training, secretarial science, business administration and accounting degrees. In 1945, the College moved to Longmeadow and became one of three schools in the nation to revert to single-sex enrollment. Four years later, the institution received approval to be named Bay Path Junior College. In 1988 the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education authorized Bay Path Junior College to become a four-year degree-granting institution, and its name was changed officially to Bay Path College.
Bay Path's annual Women's Professional Development Conferences began in 1996. Since then, the Conference has featured speakers like former U.S. Labor and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, PBS/ABC news correspondent Cokie Roberts, NBC news chief and foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and writer Maya Angelou. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had been invited in 1988 to be a guest speaker at Springfield Symphony Hall.
One-Day-A-Week Saturday College was established at Longmeadow's main campus in 1999. The following year, the College was authorized to grant the degree of Master of Science in Communications and Information Management. Authorization to grant the same degree in Occupational Therapy was given in 2002. A campus was established in central Massachusetts in 2003.
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand received an honorary degree from Bay Path in 2004.
The College was authorized to grant a master’s degree in business administration in Entrepreneurial Thinking and Innovative Practices in 2005, and a master of science in Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy in 2007. Also in 2007, both the Burlington campus and Bay Path Online were established.
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