Bunker Hill Community College Overview

Located in Boston, Massachusetts, Bunker Hill Community College is a public institution. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

What Is Bunker Hill Community College Known For?

• The 3% student loan default rate at BHCC is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• The highest award offered at BHCC is the associate's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 25% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from BHCC makes roughly $48,670 a year. This is 19% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Where Is Bunker Hill Community College?

Contact details for BHCC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	250 New Rutherford Ave, Boston, MA 02129-2925
Phone:	617-228-2000
Website:	www.bhcc.edu

How Do I Get Into BHCC?

You can apply to BHCC online at: www.bhcc.edu/admissions/applynow/

Since Bunker Hill Community College has an open admissions policy, you should not have any trouble getting into the school as long as you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Can I Afford Bunker Hill Community College?

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At BHCC, approximately 6% of students took out student loans averaging $4,641 a year. That adds up to $18,564 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at BHCC is 3.1%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Bunker Hill Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 9,290 undergraduate students at BHCC, with 3,153 being full-time and 6,137 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,153 full-time undergraduates at BHCC, 48% are male and 52% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Bunker Hill Community College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	340
Black or African American	720
Hispanic or Latino	862
White	522
International Students	363
Other Races/Ethnicities	346

Over 117 countries are represented at BHCC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Vietnam, and South Korea.

Online Learning at Bunker Hill Community College

In 2020-2021, 8,942 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at BHCC has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 9th most popular in Massachusetts for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of BHCC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Bunker Hill Community College was 271.6%. This is the #234 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at BHCC regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.