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Basic Education - Adult Learning Center at MCC
We Help You Improve Your Academic Skills!
Looking to earn your high school equivalency or improve high school-level skills?
MCC's Adult Learning Center (ALC) offers FREE, noncredit adult basic education.
The ALC provides:
- Classes to improve reading, writing, math and digital skills
- Judgement-free spaces to learn and grow skills
- Preparation for high school equivalency testing, including the GED and HiSET
- Highly qualified and experienced instructors and advisors
- Help getting ready for college-level classes
Our classes primarily serve students who are preparing to take one of the High School Equivalency exams, but when space is available, we also serve students at the Intermediate to Advanced English Speaking and Reading skill level. While we are not an ESOL program, students at higher levels have found our classes help improve their skills and prepare them for college level classes.
Are you a Massachusetts resident?
Take your high school equivalency tests for free!
The Adult Learning Center and Links are funded by the Massachusetts Department of
Elementary & Secondary Education.
It was definitely a rough time period but continuing to pursue my GED at the time was the best decision of my life. Being someone who comes from a low-income family where very few people went to college, MCC has helped me have so many great experiences I never would have been able to have otherwise. I have never felt more supported and seen as not only a student but an individual more than I do at MCC.
Toby Barnett - ALC Graduate and MCC Criminal and Social Justice Student
“The Adult Learning Center helped me so much. By the end of the semester, I understood how to write an essay and do math again. I know it was the teachers they had that made it easier. My main advice I will give to future students is to ‘not give up!’”
Veble Hann - ALC Graduate
I am so grateful for the opportunity, help and support from MCC staff over the years. I never knew that one day I would be in college. Instructors are excellent, prepare you well, and are very kind and patient with students.
Flore Valcin - ALC Graduate and MCC Biotechnology Student
Contact Us!
Adult Learning Center
alc@middlesex.edu
781-280-3662
Next Steps
- Join our FREE transition to college program – Links Program
- Ready to take the next step? Apply to MCC!
- Learn more about free college