HBC initially offered programs in bookkeeping, general business and secretarial studies.

[1][2] Hagerstown Business College was approved to offer associates degrees by the Maryland State Board for Higher Education in 1973.

The school moved to a newly constructed 7.5 acre campus in the north end of Hagerstown in 1985.

[3][4] In 1996, Hagerstown Business College was purchased by Educational Medical, Inc. (EMI) of Alpharetta, Georgia.

[8] In 2009, the school became a regionally accredited campus of Kaplan University and added online programs.