Fisher College

Fisher College, founded in 1903, is a Boston-based accredited independent college, offering curricula that integrate a liberal education with career and pre-professional programs designed to meet the changing needs of both traditional and non-traditional learners. Through its degree level and certificate programs, Fisher College has endeavored to create a learning environment that fosters the intellectual growth of its students, promotes respect for self and others, and seeks to develop the inherent capacities of each individual student to prepare for a full, satisfying, and productive professional and cultural life. Graduates of Fisher College are expected to be informed decision-makers, prepared for immediate career entry or further higher education, and able to demonstrate an understanding of and appreciation for the values of all cultures.

It has been the tradition of Fisher College to serve the educational needs of different populations. In its Day Division, Fisher provides career and transfer programs in a small college setting. This division actively seeks a diverse student population reflecting a cross section of American and international cultures. The Division of Continuing Education offers degree and certificate programs both electronically and at locations in eastern Massachusetts to a broad spectrum of learners as well as to business and industry through courses, seminars, workshops, and training sessions.

College-Wide Learning Outcomes
Because of its commitment to academic excellence, the College requires that its graduates have demonstrated competencies in written and oral communication; computational skills; critical thinking and research skills; technological literacy; civic responsibility; and racial, ethnic and cross-cultural understanding. Toward this end, each student is provided the opportunity to demonstrate the following competencies, abilities, and interests:

Effective communication skills, including the abilities to speak and write cogently, and to conduct research in relevant sources including the use of electronic databases.

The ability to understand and apply basic analytic-mathematical operations and to make logical inferences from quantitative data

Critical thinking skills to organize and process information and to formulate effectively reasoned conclusions.

Self-confidence and the ability to make moral and social judgments in the context of individual, social, and civic responsibility.

An understanding of the multi-cultural values within a diverse American and global society sufficient to enable the student to interact collaboratively with others of a different culture.

Learning skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development.