After spending nearly $1 million on testing, Nichols College was able to keep its positivity rate to 0.1% this fall.

Administrators took several measures to keep students safe.

They learned in a hybrid model with mostly in-person classes and nearly 700 students lived on campus, as opposed to 1,000.

Student athletes and some other students were tested twice a week.

All together, the school tested more than 25,000 students from August to late November, and 28 came back positive.

"When we had our first day of classes, everybody had gone through the testing center and had a negative test. We kind of created the bubble, per se. We did that. But we also included everybody in our community, our food service operations, our bookstore, our public safety, and our cleaning services. All of those employees were also included in our testing. Anybody who was on our campus," said Bob Lavigne, Vice President of Operations for Nichols College.

Nichols will finish the fall semester with remote learning, as planned.

The school says the spring semester will look similar to the fall. ​