Bunker Hill Community College

Great school. I’ve been here since 2013; have had all wonderful teachers. The only thing is, if you ever have a question about something (financial or whatever) it’s impossible to get an answer. They don’t answer phones and people there are clueless.
Nevertheless, I’m in the medical radiography program and its been amazing. Couldn’t be happier. Supportive faculty and great classmates.

nope, just nope… unorganized depts.

This school has so much potential but lacks in administrative support. You can call the school
five different times and get five different answers. Many of the departments are supported by
apathetic students. Many of the classes have students with behavior issues and sheer disrespect for the teachers and fellow students. Some teachers are very good, however, the adjunct treachers don’t have office hours or emails. The math teacher has been late to almost
every class… sometimes 45 minutes… unprepared…it seems the Deans need to better manage and over-​see the adjunct teachers.

I had a great time here. I took the IT: network admin AS program it was tough at first to learn the concepts but Prof Akerly is an excellent professor and helps students find IT internships. Seriously if you want real world experience and want to get a job in the field you’re studying look into the Learn and Earn program. Its a paid internship program at top companies in Massachusetts. I started in Bunker Hill just to get a degree and then proceed to 4 year school. Instead I was able to get a scholarship and a job doing IT for an office in downtown.

The Veterans representatives (Gabriel) at Bunker Hill Community College are absolutely worthless. Tried getting info on full time certificate programs in order to use my GI Bill. I could not get any answers and was told to speak to an admissions reps because it’s rare to take certificate programs at their campus. Not only was I blown off because these reps are to lazy to provide answers and learn the program info I was told that the Veterans support center at that school isn’t their to provide the assistance when it comes to courses and they only assist in cutting corners when using the GI Bill. That doesn’t sound professional or like the type of individuals that should be considered a Veterans rep. All I can say is, I’ll be passing on this awful experience to all veterans that I deal with on a daily basis as well seeking a more Veteran friendly campus!

⁵⁰⁄₅₀ chance of getting a really bad professor. Luckily towards the end of my degree a lot of professors were very helpful when I told them I was going through the Disabilities Office (which is amazing and has excellent tutoring if you need it). Most of them really helped me with accommodations and just showed plain kindness. There are some really hard ass professors who couldnt care less about any of your personal issues that may interfere with your ability to do well. But overall the english and literature departments are pretty amazing and the math professors are pretty good. Getting texts books can be a pain and finding parking is horrible. The lines for financial aid and registration wrap around the lobby sometimes. Its ok as community colleges go, but the atmosphere is more like a continuation of high school. Some students just hang around all day and you’ll definitely see people who have been there 6+ years. Get in, get out and move on.

This gets two stars because I do have to be thankful that they have the online math class I need to finish my prereqs towards my degree at another school. Other than that, horrible, horrible customer service. It’s almost like you’re looked at crazy if you ask a question to the advising center. I work in admissions at another school and it just makes me sick how they treat people who WANT to get an education and attend school. I call to ask a question about something I’m seeing online and the woman acted like she what I’m seeing doesn’t exist and any questions I needed answered had to be in person. She then rushed me off the phone saying she had other calls to answer. If I wasn’t so desperate to get this one class to finish my degree I wouldn’t even be wasting my time here. Funny that my coworker went there in 1970 and had a similar horrible experience. They need to improve their «welcome staff» to be more welcoming and helpful!

Meh. OK school. Went here for a summer semester while I waited for acceptance to UMass Boston. I had one great teacher, and one not so great one. I used the veterans center to sign up, so that was a breeze. Even still, I had to out the same paper work on two different times I showed up, because they misplaced the paperwork the first time.
For those who aren’t veterans, the experience looks awful. The lines are always disgustingly long. The school prides itself on diversity but I think it’s to the point where it’s borderline obnoxious. Most schools have different English courses for ESL students. This one does not. During our peer reviews for my English 112 course I was receiving grammar feedback from many people that still don’t have a clue what a preposition is, where it belongs, or why it even exists in English. This isn’t their fault or doesn’t make them stupid, but it makes for some useless feedback on my part.
I was overall very underwhelmed by the experience, and compared to other community colleges, like North Shore Community college in Danvers, I think it ranks up very sub par. If you live North of Boston, NSCC is a much better choice, even if it’s a longer drive.

Studied 2 years here, terrible experience! Staff is so rude, unorganized, lazy. Counselors, advisors doesn’t know how to do their job and always with an attitude. Glad I left

I went here for the weekend culinary program. Fridays night classes for both semesters were taught well, with many varying methods of teaching, homework, and an end of semester project. Now onto the actual cooking and baking labs. The first semester we had a chef teach both the four hour baking and the four hour culinary class. We were assigned homework to answer questions in the book and type them up. Once we drew a picture of an egg as an assignment. In labs, we would make whatever we wanted in baking, bringing ingredients in ourselves if need be. The chef would wander around and then disappear for an hour or two, then gather us all for a lecture in which she read from the book. We were taught very little in culinary, with a short lecture ie: reading with a trip to the kitchen to see how her stock came out from the morning. No foundations were taught, very minimal info on knife skills, and nothing about how to actually cook. We were told to make crepes so we looked in the book and followed a formula while the chef disappeared. Our final was a test from another class on things we never actually practiced. I received an A. On what I was graded I do not know. The second semester, we had two new adjunct chefs, one for baking and one for culinary. Both were shocked at how little we learned and we had to start from the beginning. The second semester we are supposed to actually serve «customers» for the whole term, but since we had zero experience, we lost out on this most basic part of class and were only allowed to serve three days. A class is only as good as it’s teachers… I wish I could get a refund.

let’s just say. i’m glad I transferred out… smh…
I considered this school to be one of the «better» community colleges but since leaving the school, I realize how much time and money I have wasted… oh yea, and forget about trying to register for classes, it’s a mad house!!! and most classes fill up within 5−15minutes… ((and let’s not forget about the long lines for the bookstore, cafeteria and computer labs))
nonetheless, my advice for prospective students wanting to transfer to a four year college from BHCC is to do the mass transfer program. it’ll save u so much time and money. trust me !

What a shitshow this school is. I am actually a student there now and I can honestly say I cant wait to get out.

Now let me be clear. I havent had any problems with my classes, Ive had some good teachers and some boring ones but thats all a part of the process. (Thats what the 2 stars are for) But this schools administration SUCKS, youre lucky if you can find a compentant adult to help you but I usually get students who work there who have no idea whats going on. Everything from registaring for classes and so on is a disaster. Especially if you are someone who hasnt been to school in a few years and you need some guidance, you certainly will not get it here. There are crowds of students standing in lines or running around trying to sign up, make payments, or just get answers to their questions. Its a circus.

Specifically this semester has been my worst and it just started!!! So… I registered online for a Thursday class from 6−8pm, when I arrive the first day of that class, the teacher tells us all the class is not one day a week but Tuesdays AND Thursdays from 6−8pm. I plus the other 25 students in the class all told the proffesor (who is really nice) what it said online at the time of registration. Alot of the students have other classes scheduled for Tuesday so they could not attend that part of the class. Fast forward a few days and we get an email from the school saying the class will be 6−10pm on Thursday nights!!! Now this is a science and lab class which requires a lot of work. I dont believe cramming everything in in 4 hours is going to prompt positive learning and make it easy for anyomne to get an A. Half the students brains will be so filled with information after the first 2 hours Im sure they will shut down… like myself! They should have done a better job rectifying this issue. But the school doesnt care about its students just about getting paid. Which brings me to my next complaint.
When students set up a payment plan for lets say 3 months and the school doesnt recieve one of the payments on their FIRST attempt they cancel it and drop all of your classes. Do they send out a notification email that their first attempt wasnt successful? NO Because they just want their money! They should notify the student and let him/​her know they will be trying again and then cancel if they have to. That happened to me and I had to run around trying to fix it.

A friend of mine going here was a part of the Target mess with all the credit cards being compromised. So her credit card company sent her out a new card and cancelled her old one. She even called the schools payment company to notify them and they told her she was ALL SET with her payments… a few days later all her classes are dropped! And now shes scrambling around trying to reregistar BUT of course if the classes are «closed» says the school… she wont be able to get back in to any of the classes shes already been in for a week! Which makes no sense to me. Plus she bought all her books already too! Mined you this isnt her fault yet the school puts everything on her.
The biggest thing here is that when you do have a complaint or issue at the school there is NO ONE to contact. No email on their website. Its like theres no one in charge ofthis whole operation and everyone is just runnig around doing whatever they want. Where are the higher ups???

I gave them only 2 stars because it means «Meh, I’ve had experienced better» I have experienced better– at this SAME SCHOOL!
.I am on the fence about BHCC. I took some undergrad courses there with the plan of transferring to a 4 year «name brand» school. Think about it. Why pay $ 2000 for basic college level math or psych class when you can pay less than $ 200 and it transfers– no problem? So for me it was a chance to get my GPA up and keep my financials low. For that aspect BHCC is great. I found their course schedules varied and accommodating, they even have midnight classes! If you care, really care, about learning there are some really great professors there, you have to take it upon yourself to ask around and find out who they are. Its a case of, you get what you put in. If you want slide thru– you can find those professors too. But don’t think there aren’t some great teachers there. They are definitely there. You just have to ask other students to find out who they are.
I went to my big named college, had a decent career in another field but wanted to switch to something else. So I went back to BHCC. I got into the nursing program and disappointment is a HUGE understatement. You can’t seek out the great teachers, because they are in the minority in this program and you don’t have a choice as to which professor you get. Students are completely stuck with who they get. STUCK, being the operative word. Their nursing program is disorganized, dysfunctional and a huge disappointment. Its actually a disgrace. They have all the tools to have a great program there, but they lack leadership, organization, COMMON SENSE and teaching ability. The drop out rate is high and the passing rate for the NCLEX is falling. Its not the students. They are A students and high B students. They have to be to get into the program, so from what I’ve seen and experienced its the program, its lack of leadership and organization and (some) of the teachers. Its such a waste of time, energy, opportunity and money for everyone involved.
So– for me there are great teachers and classes for the general school population, but the nursing program is now bordering on a terrible failure.

In terms of inexpensive tuition, access to online classes and other alternative learning classes (self directed learning), access to computer labs Bunker Hill CC is great. I am an alumnus class of 2013. I studied information technology. All of my credits transferred to UMASS/​Lowell.
The BHCC website and online services are great. It is easy to evaluate your program and see what courses you should choose on the fly. You can register for courses online. The system works great. It enables students to avoid long lines etc.
I needed to send a transcript to Umass/​Lowell. No problem! Just go online and for a small fee make the request online. No paper involved.
The center for self directed learning just moved to the Kaplan building. It is brand new and very nice. The only problem is the location is not pedestrian friendly. There is NO parking there either so you have to take a kidney punching shuttle bus ride from the main campus or take the MBTA to Sullivan station and brave a «Frogger» like experience as a pedestrian to get there. The shuttle bus is technically wheel chair accessible but I don’t think it is a very comfortable ride and perhaps a hardship for disabled students.
The student body is numerous!!! It really is getting to be over crowded. I would advise potential students to take as many courses online as possible. The college is in desperate need for a larger campus. The building is waaaay too small for the volume of students in attendance.
The college offers support services for students in the form of tax help, social services help. If you are on ssi or any public aid they will help you out with your services.
It’s not perfect but it far exceeds my expectations.

Excuse me if this list isn’t exactly ordered logically, I’m kinda just writing down my thoughts as I remember them:
I signed up with BHCC in Spring 2012, assuming (since they say it’s a 2 year degree) that I’d be done in 2014. Ha! They neglected to mention that that timeline only applies to full-​time students, so hey if you’re working or otherwise unable to attend full time, go fuck yourself.
Their class schedule is just terrible. The school is designed around full-​time daytime students, so if you’re working or a parent or whatever, good luck finagling your credits per semester. Of course, they have tons of classes at 7 – 9 AM (?!) and on Saturday/​Sunday mornings, but it’s like they don’t think people work 9 – 5.
Also, as an IT student, this place horrifies me. Not only are the computers outdated and clunky, but the IT faculty is seriously questionable. I’m constantly getting emails from the IT department that are full of Comic Sans, !!!superfluous!!exclamation!!! POINTS!!! AND!!! CAPS!!! and just… terrible grammar, spelling, layout, everything. I’ve actually taken screencaps of how hideous and confidence-​torpedoing these emails are. (Which I’ll try to add to this review.)
Another sucky thing they do is milk the student body for free labor. Seems like almost every class I take now comes with a group project attached, and those projects always happen to be research projects involving things at the school (Their energy consumption is one that sticks out to me). Personally, I absolutely hate group projects and would always, always prefer to work alone, but usually I can tolerate it. Except… again, they assume you’re a full-​time daytime student. It’s not like adults have schedules that don’t allow them to run around the school doing the school’s fucking work at all hours. And who the HELL thinks math needs group projects? Honestly, what planet is this school being run from?
It’s a good thing that they have frequent career and transfer fairs, but guess what? They are, without fail, always in the middle of the fucking work day. What am I supposed to do, pop over on my lunch break for 10 minutes before having to go back to work? It’s seriously like they’re totally disconnected with the world.
As other people have mentioned, the administrative side of the school is a nightmare. Until this current semester, they wouldn’t tell you if your financial aid didn’t go through or something, they’d just drop you from whatever you registered for with no warning or notification at all. I found out I was on academic probation nearly a month after trying to register for classes. They sent a letter mysteriously postmarked for late July that didn’t arrive until mid-​September (And to get off probation? I had to appeal it by mid-​August). They sent an email about probation that SO VERY TYPICALLY OF THEM contained absolutely no fucking information, only telling me that I had to come in to some gab session to find out about it. They don’t even have information about it on their website.
Their registration system has, every single semester, refused to acknowledge prerequisites that I’ve met. Nobody ever, ever answers their phones. If you ask five different people the same question, you’ll get five different answers. None of the registration people seem to know what they’re doing, and a lot of them serve you a lot of attitude for simple things.
I could go on and on about the crappy things at this crappy excuse for a college, but I should mention that (most) of the teachers are actually pretty great. I’ve had one jackass teacher (Looking at you, Banjo), two indifferent online teachers, and a few great ones. The two greats are Ken Melillo and Ellen Ford, both math teachers, and both absolutely wonderful amazing people. They’re both sensitive to the needs of working and otherwise very busy and tired adults (Having to miss class/​leave early/​etc), explain the material thoroughly and carefully, and are willing to help whenever they can. One of these teachers came in early numerous times to help me, and another let me raincheck a midterm just because it fell on my birthday (Yes, I’m a whiny baby who doesn’t like to do anything on my birthday). Seriously, these are A+ teachers.
In conclusion, I’ve hated my time here at this glorified high school, and can’t wait to transfer the hell out of there.

Huh, where to start? I went here for 4 years. Yes, I know, I should have graduated sooner but I went part time and the summer courses were not covered by financial aid. First off, admissions sucks as well as the people who are supposed to help you figure out what to take. They were very slow, gave wrong info, and always seemed to hate their jobs. Secondly, the financial aid office was even slower, shared the same attitude as the admissions dept and seemed to lose everything! Calling them on the phone was like calling to Mars (No one answers). I would say that the teachers were okay. I never had any issues with them except for one. He just never answered questions, didn’t grade on time and was not specific with class work. Speaking to the dean helped get him to do his job. I absolutely hated going to the campus because the lines were so long! I was so happy to do my classes online and through distance learning.
When I had finally decided to transfer out and attend another college, I had to meet with some advisor to sign out. She noticed I was very pregnant and she assumed I was quitting school so she asked me «So, what to you plan to do now?» With a major attitude. I told her I was going elsewhere and she just handed me my paper and moved on. No good luck or sorry to see you go. No counseling on my options or anything. (BTW, I had one class left to get my associates and I realized I should have stuck it through to get that degree but oh well). Now, I am attending SNHU’s graduate program. I also graduated from SNHU with my B.A. in Psychology. The atmosphere and people were so much more helpful and the advisor actually cares about you!

I have to say that in the time I’ve been here. the volume of students is just getting out of hand. Every time class lets out, it’s like a tsunami of people up and down the halls. Good luck parking in the first lot if you’re a driver. I’ve had days where I would park at the end of the second lot. AT THE END! This is just insane and it’s getting worse every semester.
And don’t get me started on how they keep changing requirements for degrees. I signed up for a class for my degree. started it and a few weeks into it found out that they have axed it from the requirements! This ISN’T the first time this has happened!
For a detailed review. read what Mallory L. wrote. It’s quite accurate.

love this place to death so many good teachers, but be wary, the security officers are actual police officers and they will fuck up your life if you do not do exactly what they say. I got arrested on my graduation night, as i tried to get out of the car (we were being stopped and i wasn’t the driver) I did not want to be late for the ceremony but ended up never going and spending the next few hours in a cell with a court date in the AM.
THANKS BHCC… at least I never have to go back.

Lets start off with saying that writing this review began with a google search of ‘i hate bunker hill community college’. I am literally at my wits end with this hell hole.
I’ve been here for three years, and even if i get accepted into their nursing program i don’t even know if it will be worth the frustration of dealing with this place for another 2 years. Thats how bad it is.
Many of my professors have been absoultely horrific. They are not committed to their jobs here. Many are adjunct faculty, which means teaching a class or two here is just a part-​time way to supplement their income from their regular or other teaching positions. Some are high school teachers full time, others teach at other colleges. This has been extremely frustrating when I became a full time student here and was completely invested because i quickly realized that they were not. Many are unresponsive, unreliable and put little effort into anything they do here. I’ve taken more than a handful of online courses, most of the work done this way is electronically graded quizzes and homework. This means the only thing your professor has do the entire semester is answer your questions and maybe grade a midterm and or final. Yet many of them can’t even seem to do that adequately.
Yes, I’ve had a few caring and brilliant professors but they are unfortunately far and few. Ever horrible professor I’ve ever had has a correspondingly horrible rating on
with the lack of employment for teachers/​professors you would think the college would crack down and only employ professors with good reputations. Such is not the case. One professor had at least 15 horrible ratings on this site, spanning at least 3 years and STILL works here. I had a professor who refused to accept my disability accomodation (WHICH IS ILLEGAL!). The same professor also stated in his syllabus that his entire course was based on 4 exams only. I got at least a B on all four exams, and he gave me a D. I ended up having to take the course again.
The administration here is by FAR the worst part of the college. I’ve had to put a forebearance on my loans more than once due to the amount of time it takes them to process their deferments. They send deferments to the clearinghouse, yet they still take forever. When you bring in a paper deferment… well good luck to you, because it will probably never get done. I’ve even had my credit reported on WHILE i was in school all year and my loans were supposed to be deferred. This place is unforgiveable.
I was academically suspended in the Fall after having a 3.15 g.p.a and all b’s or higher in the prior semester and year. That should have never happened. I had to jump through hoops and almost had a heart attack trying to reverse it in time to register. My fiancial aid was even still suspended after I was granted an appeal and had to go through a lengthly appeal proecess in order to even become eligible for a federal loan, it took them THREE MONTHS to read my ‘letter’ and look at my transcript and approve or deny me. I kept asking when this would be done and they kept putting me off. I finally complained an somebody did it on the spot for me… it took all of 30 seconds for them to approve me… NICE!
Furthermore, nobody who works there knows what they are talking about, although they *think* they do. If somebody who works in registration tries to tell you that you ‘can’t’ do something and that there is ‘nobody’ to talk to about your issue or that nothing can be done. There is always a way, you just have to search and search and search until you find somebody intelligent, and connected enough to help you find somebody with the power to fix your problem. Unfortunately at this school, people who have no authority tell you things authoritatively… extremely frustrating.
My ‘advisor’ who has worked here for 20 years tried to give me a lower level course for a transfer credit, even though the course description was an exact match for the higher level course (science courses, so this is a big deal). She told me there was ‘no one else’ to talk to about this that there was no way around this. Turns out she was wrong. I talked to the transfer counselor and a year later, I have credit for a higher level course. The WORST part about this was that the class was another mass community college! My gpa also didn’t transfer… you’d think they’d have this syncronized BY NOW!
They never pick up the phone, never call you back, are never willing to help… the list goes on and on and on.
The worst part is, that now they are admitting too many new students. I’m supposed to graduate and I can’t even get into the required courses the semester before graduation FOR graduation. They also now have ‘on the spot’ acceptance for new applicants! Seriously!?! I can’t even get into a SINGLE LITERATURE course and you are accepting new applicants on the spot!?!
DO NOT GO HERE!

One of the best community colleges out there. You can get every opportunity if you seek it in the campus. They have study abroad program, which is awesome. Good jobs in campus and pay well
Professors are helpful and knowledgable. For diligent students, it is very easy to get As.
Some negative comments. Computers are pretty obsolete and contain outdated software. The smart boards are not as smart as they say. Food and coffee in the cafeteria is awful. One more thing, I hate the tailored textbooks of BHCC. It makes very difficult to sell back. I got the marketing textbooks and the chapters as well as page numbers are all mixed up.
The ping pong table is so much fun. Get to the B lounge to have fun with us.