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Outcomes
Cost
Community
Overview
Cambridge College is a private nonprofit institution in Boston built specifically for working adults completing or advancing a degree, not for students coming straight from high school. Its academic calendar and course delivery — evening, weekend, hybrid, and online — are structured around people who work full-time, and admissions is explicitly access-oriented rather than competitive.
Academics
Programs concentrate in education, counseling, management, and healthcare-adjacent fields, many building toward licensure or workplace advancement rather than broad liberal-arts exploration. Many students transfer in substantial prior coursework, and the college has a longstanding practice of granting credit for prior learning and professional experience.
Campus & student life
There is little traditional residential campus culture here; most students commute or study remotely and juggle coursework around jobs and families. Classes are typically small and discussion-based, with an older, more experienced student body than most four-year colleges.
Getting in
Admissions is access-first: the college is built to serve adult learners and career-changers rather than to screen for the most competitive applicants, so essays and standardized tests carry little weight compared with a student's readiness to complete a working-adult degree program.
Worth knowing
The evening/weekend/online structure and prior-learning credit policies make this a realistic option for adults resuming a stalled degree, but it is not built for a traditional-age student seeking dorm life, athletics, or a conventional four-year campus experience.
Admissions
Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)
Applying
cambridgecollege.edu ↗High school coursework
RequiredHigh school diploma required; no specific unit distribution required
Recommended4 years of English · 3 years of Mathematics (Algebra I & II, Geometry) · 2+ years of Laboratory Science · 3+ years of Social Studies (including U.S. History)
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