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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

"My alumni family at HCC has been a constant, offering me encouragement and support, inviting me to be a mentor to new HCC students, and believing in me even when I sometimes doubted myself." – Elizabeth Román '03, executive editor, New England Public Media

A Pretty Good Life

programs You have the passion. We have the program.

A team of rad tech students uses an X-ray machine

Earn your associate degree and get to work or transfer to a four-year college.

A culinary arts student chops carrots in the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute

Explore certificate programs like accounting, music, culinary arts, education, and sustainability studies.

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Register for personal enrichment and professional development classes.

15:1

student/faculty ratio

95+

degrees & certificates

40

student clubs & organizations

85

transfer programs

709

2024 graduates

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value experience the value of an hcc education.

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Free child watch, food pantry access, menstrual equity, emergency grants, and more.

Resources & Support

A student and advisor sit at a table together.

HCC offers a multitude of support programs for students.

Professionals Who Care

A college rep talks with an HCC student at a transfer fair

You can go anywhere with an HCC education. Explore 85-plus transfer opportunities to four-year schools.

What's After HCC?

start for something, stop for nothing.

Earn Your G.E.D.

Get started on the road to education by earning your HiSET/GED.

Grow your career

Move ahead in your field with our professional development programs.

enrich your life

Learn a new hobby or skill.

news&events Keep up with everything going on at HCC.

Hope for the Future

Jodie de Alencar, 37, left Brazil for a better life in the United States and started his American journey at HCC as an English language learner.

Oath of Office

Veteran HCC police officer Jacqueline Robles of Springfield will be sworn in a chief on Monday, May 5, during HCC's first-ever oath-of-office ceremony,

Happy to Be Here

Ever since high school, Dawn Butz has wanted to be a nurse. Now, at 52, she is pursuing that dream at HCC.