Based on the premise that these young adults ambition to learn must be taken seriously, BHSECs four-year program enables highly motivated students to earn a New York State high school Regents diploma and a tuition-free Bard College associates degree in four years. Now in its third decade, the Bard Early College network serves over 3,300 students in campuses in The Bronx, Lower Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Hudson, New York; Newark, New Jersey; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland.