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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

After graduating from HCC in 1977, Kathy Bronner built a career in development, raising money for Mount Holyoke College and hospital foundations on Cape Code and in Springfield.

Developing Spirit

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

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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.

Alumni Happy Hour

Sip, savor, and socialize with fellow alumni, and HCC faculty and staff on Thursday, Nov. 20, at Fame in downtown Holyoke, during this complimentary event.

To Have and To Hold

The HCC Theater Dept.'s fall production of "The Last Living Gun" (Nov. 20-22) sends a mercenary on an epic quest in a post-apocalyptic world where guns are thought to be extinct.

Top Honors

The Connection, the HCC college magazine, received a first-place Medallion Award at the Fall 2025 District 1 conference of the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations.