Is this your year?
Last year, hundreds of people pursued a Boston College B.A. on their own terms. You can apply now to get started in either the spring, summer, or fall semesters.
Complete your bachelor’s degree—100% online, hybrid, or in-person.
At the Woods College of Advancing Studies, you can earn a world-class Boston College bachelor’s degree that fits your goals, your schedule, and your budget. We specialize in degree completion, with evening, online, and hybrid courses that are ideal for transfer students, working professionals, and service members. Join Boston College’s well-connected alumni network and take your career to the next level.
Whether you are finishing a bachelor’s degree or starting one, BC Woods offers personalized support from advisors, faculty, and staff to help you thrive.
Nine Affordable Bachelor's Options
Gain the industry-specific knowledge and cutting-edge skills you’ll need to stand out in today’s job market.
Want to solve real-world problems with data? Build programming, mathematics, and statistics foundations, plus advanced data engineering, mining AI, and machine learning skills ethically across industries.
- Career paths: Career paths: Data architect, machine learning engineer, statistician, business intelligence analyst
- Key courses: Applied Statistics, Systems Analysis and Design, Econometrics with R, Database Management
Experience BC’s esteemed liberal arts tradition while acquiring in-demand, employer-aligned skills such as project management, data visualization and analysis, design thinking, and conflict resolution.
- Career paths: advertising and public relations, journalist, research analyst, educator, archivist, public policy researcher, law student
- Six concentrations: English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Sociology, Sustainability
With an emphasis on communication, data analysis, project management, and ethical leadership, this program equips you to become an effective, inclusive business leader.
- Career paths: financial manager, purchasing manager, human resource manager
- Key courses: Digital Marketing Strategy, Data Analysis, Business Law
Explore the factors that influence criminal behavior, the legal processes behind criminal laws, and the ethical and political issues surrounding criminality and incarceration.
- Career paths: criminal defense lawyer, social work student, paralegal, law student, probation or parole officer, district attorney
- Key courses: Introduction to Criminology, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Law and Society
With an emphasis on risk management, risk tolerance, and risk mitigation, this expert-taught program provides core competencies that will enable you to protect both public and private organizations from today's urgent threats.
- Career paths: cyber risk analyst, information security engineer, security operations analyst, FBI special agent, risk compliance analyst
- Key courses: Computer Networks, Ethical Hacking, Incident Response and Disaster Recovery
Communicate effectively across digital platforms, leverage data to tell meaningful stories, and develop effective and ethical marketing and communications plans using the current tools and approaches.
- Career paths: communication professional, public relations specialist, editor, technical writer, underwriter, advertising professional
- Key courses: Intro to Communication, Digital Marketing Strategy, Digital Storytelling
This program prepares tomorrow’s business leaders with a focus on economic theory and policy, practical applications for today's workplaces, and ethical decision-making.
- Career paths: banker, business manager, market researcher, budget analyst
- Key courses: Principles of Economics, Calculus I, Econometrics, Data Analysis
Explore technical and theoretical issues in information technology as you prepare to program computer and web-based applications and employ software and technology related to security.
- Career paths: database administrator, information systems manager, IT consultant, systems developer, network engineer
- Key courses: Introduction to Programming, Python, Project Management, Systems Architecture
This program provides a comprehensive understanding of individual and group behavior, psychological counseling, and the ethical dimensions of psychology.
- Career paths: community service manager, health educator, market research analyst, social services advocate, case manager
- Key courses: Introduction to Psychology, Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Flexible Graduate Programs
The Woods College also offers six in-demand master's programs and nine four-course certificate programs, with online, hybrid, and in-person options that will prepare you to take your career to the next level—without quitting your day job. Our M.S. degrees prepare students to thrive in the fields of Applied Analytics, Applied Economics, Leadership, Healthcare Administration, Sports Administration, and Sports Analytics.
