Bunker Hill Community College is a two-year community college located in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts. It is an urban campus with over 10,000 students. The student culture is diverse; six in ten students are people of color, and more than half of all students are women. There are 650 international students attending BHCC; they come from 94 countries and speak more than 75 languages. A secondary campus is located in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and there are satellite locations in Cambridge, East Boston, Revere, and Boston's South End. The college is part of the Massachusetts community college network. It is the largest Community College out of all the Community Colleges in the Massachusetts Community College network.
The college, located on the former site of the Charlestown State Prison, opened in 1973 in vicinity of Bunker Hill—site of the Battle of Bunker Hill during the siege of Boston in the Revolutionary War.
The college was featured in the movie Good Will Hunting, as the location where Robin Williams' character teaches. BHCC behavioral science chairperson, John P. Reeves, served as a model for Williams’ character.
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