FISHER COLLEGE

Our Mission
Fisher College improves lives by providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary for a lifetime of intellectual and professional pursuits.

Our Vision
Fisher Knows Boston's Business. Fisher will become the college of choice for young people and adults eager to utilize the vibrant commercial and professional resources of Boston to pursue higher education. Fisher will draw on the rich resources of this thriving historic city to prepare its students to enter the most in-demand professions, anywhere in the world, and succeed.

An Outstanding Pre-professional Education. Fisher will position itself to become one of Boston’s leading bachelor’s and master’s degree-granting institutions, by offering strong academic programs and internships that are highly valued by potential employers. The increasingly close connection between student learning and professional employability will come to characterize a Fisher education.

Highly Dedicated Faculty. Fisher will become known for its faculty’s dedication to providing every student a unique education. Faculty will work closely with their students to understand and guide their aspirations, help them master academic content, acquire professional skills, pursue internships, meet potential employers, and assist them in applying to graduate school.

Innovative Teaching Methods. Fisher will embrace academic innovation for its students at every point in their professional development. Fisher will grow its online and hybrid learning capacities, increase the number and career-relevance of its internships, and provide employer-relevant programs to both degree-seeking students and cohorts of employees, working by itself or in partnership with other organizations.

Civically Engaged. Fisher will become known for its commitment to civic engagement and establish itself in the media and the public eye as an important intellectual resource. Fisher will become a site where civic, business, government, and academic leaders come together to address economic and social problems and explore issues and opportunities that impact Boston, the region, and the world.

Fisher College continues to evolve. As set forth in the Strategic Plan, by spring 2023, the College
will increase its enrollment of well-qualified traditional-age undergraduates, while preserving
its close student-faculty interactions and small class sizes. Rates of enrollment, retention, and
graduation will rise. Fisher will expand its online presence and better integrate its traditional age and adult-serving degree programs.
The College will offer academic programs in cutting-edge fields, such as information
technology, while building on Fisher’s pre-professional strengths and liberal arts core. Weakly
enrolled programs will be modified or eliminated. The Graduate program will introduce
additional career-relevant master’s degrees, and the College will hire sufficient faculty to
support its programs and keep student-faculty ratios low.
Fisher will celebrate its student diversity and hire additional faculty and staff to create a more
inclusive community; build out a new office of advancement and alumni engagement; improve
its facilities; research options for campus growth; utilize professional branding and marketing
to raise its institutional profile and reputation; and become known as a site of civic engagement,
and, locally, as a good neighbor in the Back Bay.
Fisher College is dedicated to maintaining financial stability. It will steward its resources and
grow them through careful planning. Because of this commitment, the strategic goals described
in the Plan are more than aspirations—they represent an attainable if ambitious future for the
College and a benefit to Boston, and, in time, to the world.