diff --git a/rdt/hyper_transformer.py b/rdt/hyper_transformer.py
index ba01f7cc..8ac743e5 100644
--- a/rdt/hyper_transformer.py
+++ b/rdt/hyper_transformer.py
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
     ConfigNotSetError, InvalidConfigError, InvalidDataError, NotFittedError, TransformerInputError,
     TransformerProcessingError)
 from rdt.transformers import (
-    BaseTransformer, get_class_by_transformer_name, get_default_transformer,
-    get_transformers_by_type)
+    BaseMultiColumnTransformer, BaseTransformer, get_class_by_transformer_name,
+    get_default_transformer, get_transformers_by_type)
 from rdt.transformers.utils import flatten_column_list
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -599,10 +599,13 @@ def _get_columns_to_sdtypes(self, field):
         """Generate the ``columns_to_sdtypes`` dict for the given field.
 
         Args:
-            field (tuple):
+            field (str, tuple[str]):
                 Names of the column for the multi column trnasformer.
         """
         columns_to_sdtypes = {}
+        if isinstance(field, str):
+            field = (field,)
+
         for column in field:
             columns_to_sdtypes[column] = self.field_sdtypes[column]
 
@@ -630,7 +633,7 @@ def _fit_field_transformer(self, data, field, transformer):
             self._output_columns.append(field)
 
         else:
-            if isinstance(field, tuple):
+            if isinstance(transformer, BaseMultiColumnTransformer):
                 columns_to_sdtypes = self._get_columns_to_sdtypes(field)
                 transformer.fit(data, columns_to_sdtypes)
             else:
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_hyper_transformer.py b/tests/integration/test_hyper_transformer.py
index ed820a00..828457c6 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_hyper_transformer.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_hyper_transformer.py
@@ -1481,6 +1481,44 @@ def test_hypertransformer_with_mutli_column_transformer_end_to_end(self):
         pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(transformed_data, expected_transformed_data)
         pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(reverse_transformed_data, data_test)
 
+    def test_hypertransformer_with_mutli_column_transformer_and_single_column(self):
+        """Test a mutli column transformer used with for a single column."""
+        # Setup
+        data_test = pd.DataFrame({
+            'A': ['1.0', '2.0', '3.0'],
+            'B2': ['4.0', '5.0', '6.0'],
+            'C': [True, False, True]
+        })
+        dict_config = {
+            'sdtypes': {
+                'A': 'categorical',
+                'B2': 'categorical',
+                'C': 'boolean'
+            },
+            'transformers': {
+                'A': DummyMultiColumnTransformerNumerical(),
+                ('B2', ): DummyMultiColumnTransformerNumerical(),
+                'C': UniformEncoder()
+            }
+        }
+        config = Config(dict_config)
+        ht = HyperTransformer()
+        ht.set_config(config)
+
+        # Run
+        transformed_data = ht.fit_transform(data_test)
+        reverse_transformed_data = ht.reverse_transform(transformed_data)
+
+        # Assert
+        expected_transformed_data = pd.DataFrame({
+            'A': [1.0, 2.0, 3.0],
+            'B2': [4.0, 5.0, 6.0],
+            'C': [0.04206197607326308, 0.8000968077312287, 0.06325519846695522]
+        })
+
+        pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(transformed_data, expected_transformed_data)
+        pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(reverse_transformed_data, data_test)
+
     def test_update_transformers_single_to_multi_column(self):
         """Test ``update_transformers`` to go from single to mutli column transformer."""
         # Setup
@@ -1515,13 +1553,13 @@ def test_update_transformers_single_to_multi_column(self):
             },
             'transformers': {
                 'C': UniformEncoder(),
-                "('A', 'B')": DummyMultiColumnTransformerNumerical()
+                ('A', 'B'): DummyMultiColumnTransformerNumerical(),
             }
         })
 
         expected_multi_columns = {
             'A': ('A', 'B'),
-            'B': ('A', 'B')
+            'B': ('A', 'B'),
         }
 
         assert repr(new_config) == repr(expected_config)
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_hyper_transformer.py b/tests/unit/test_hyper_transformer.py
index 9d3f4f93..7793593c 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_hyper_transformer.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_hyper_transformer.py
@@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ def test__get_columns_to_sdtypes(self):
         column_tuple = ('col1', 'col2', 'col3')
 
         # Run
-        columns_to_sdtypes = ht._get_columns_to_sdtypes(column_tuple)
+        columns_to_sdtypes_tuple = ht._get_columns_to_sdtypes(column_tuple)
+        columns_to_sdtypes_str = ht._get_columns_to_sdtypes('col4')
 
         # Assert
         expected_columns_to_sdtypes = {
@@ -348,7 +349,8 @@ def test__get_columns_to_sdtypes(self):
             'col2': 'categorical',
             'col3': 'boolean',
         }
-        assert columns_to_sdtypes == expected_columns_to_sdtypes
+        assert columns_to_sdtypes_tuple == expected_columns_to_sdtypes
+        assert columns_to_sdtypes_str == {'col4': 'datetime'}
 
     def test__fit_field_transformer(self):
         """Test the ``_fit_field_transformer`` method.