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Programs of Study

In addition to academic programs leading to college degrees, community colleges offer vocational education and technical training. Community colleges usually have strong ties with their state's universities and their region's business sector, and so are sometimes referred to as the community's college. these relationships mean that the college curricula are designed to prepare students for either future academic success or immediate employment.

Programs of study at community colleges usually include:

Two-Year Associate Degree Programs

These may be:

• designed to fulfill the requirements for the first two years of a four-year bachelor's degree. They may be called transfer degree programs because students who complete them later transfer to four-year universities for the final two years of study. Examples of such programs include pre-business administration, pre-engineering, fine arts, liberal arts, and computer science.

• designed to prepare students for immediate employment in fields such as automotive engineering, interior design, aviation flight technology, child development, criminal justice, health care services and sciences, business, fire science technology, paralegal studies, food management, and photography. These are sometimes called terminal degree programs.

Certificate Programs

·         Certificate programs train individuals for positions in areas like social work and human services, health care, building trades, and technologies. Certificate programs may be short-term or long term depending on the type of course that is offered. Long-term programs include nursing, while short-term certificate programs include such speciality areas as office technology, real estate, and computer-assisted design.

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