Published
May 14, 2013
Community colleges do not traditionally boast high completion rates, but there are many ideas in the works at schools across the country to bring those rates up. We look at a few that are making headlines today.
Town
|
College
|
# Students
|
Alvin |
Alvin Community College (Public) |
5,730 |
Amarillo |
Amarillo College (Public) |
11,675 |
Arlington |
ITT Technical Institute-Arlington (Private for-profit) |
968 |
Arlington |
Everest College-Arlington (Arlington - 76011) (Private for-profit) |
662 |
Athens |
Trinity Valley Community College (Public) |
7,609 |
Austin |
Austin Business College (Private, for profit) |
177 |
Austin |
44,100 |
|
Austin |
National American University-Austin (Private for-profit) |
317 |
Austin |
ITT Technical Institute-Austin (Private for-profit) |
882 |
Austin |
Virginia College-Austin (Private for-profit) |
776 |
Austin |
Southwest Institute of Technology (Private for-profit) |
6 |
Austin |
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts-Austin (Private for-profit) |
1,162 |
Austin |
Allied Health Careers (Private for-profit) |
305 |
Baytown |
Lee College (Public) |
6,794 |
Beaumont |
Kaplan College (Beaumont) (Private for-profit) |
458 |
Beaumont |
Lamar Institute of Technology (Public) |
3,210 |
Beeville |
Coastal Bend College (Public) |
4,348 |
Big Spring |
Howard College (Public) |
4,656 |
Big Spring |
104 |
|
Borger |
Frank Phillips College (Public) |
1,210 |
Brenham |
Blinn College (Public) |
18,127 |
Brownsville |
Kaplan College-Brownsville (Private for-profit) |
514 |
Carthage |
Panola College (Public) |
2,324 |
Cisco |
Cisco College (Public) |
4,816 |
Clarendon |
Clarendon College (Public) |
1,584 |
Corpus Christ |
Kaplan College-Corpus Christi (Private for-profit) |
618 |
Corpus Christi |
Del Mar College (Public) |
12,264 |
Corsicana |
Navarro College (Public) |
10,214 |
Dallas |
Westwood College-Dallas (Private for-profit) |
532 |
Dallas |
Kaplan College (Dallas) (Private for-profit) |
291 |
Dallas |
Dallas Institute of Funeral Service (Private not-for-profit) |
188 |
Dallas |
El Centro College (Public) |
10,383 |
Dallas |
ATI Career Training Center-Dallas (Private for-profit) |
1,491 |
Dallas |
Wade College (Private for-profit) |
268 |
Dallas |
Richland College (Public) |
19,175 |
Dallas |
Sanford-Brown College (Dallas) (Private for-profit) |
1,236 |
Dallas |
Everest College-Dallas (Private for-profit) |
1,177 |
Dallas |
Mountain View College (Public) |
8,425 |
Dallas |
K D Studio (Private for-profit) |
185 |
Dallas |
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts-Dallas (Private for-profit) |
1,024 |
Dallas |
Court Reporting Institute-Wheeler Institute Of Texas (Private for-profit) |
910 |
Dallas |
The Art Institute Of Dallas (Public) |
1,545 |
Denison |
Grayson County College (Public) |
5,284 |
El Paso |
Southwest Career College (Private for-profit) |
626 |
El Paso |
Border Institute Of Technology (Private, for profit) |
22 |
El Paso |
International Business College (El Paso - 79912) (Private for-profit) |
330 |
El Paso |
El Paso Community College (Public) |
29,938 |
El Paso |
Anamarc College (Private for-profit) |
534 |
El Paso |
Computer Career Center a division of Vista College (Private for-profit) |
1,446 |
El Paso |
International Business College (El Paso - 79907) (Private for-profit) |
436 |
El Paso |
Western Technical College (El Paso - 79927) (Private for-profit) |
913 |
El Paso |
Western Technical College (El Paso - 79924) (Private for-profit) |
543 |
Farmers Branch |
Brookhaven College (Public) |
12,815 |
Fort Worth |
The College Of Saint Thomas More (Private, non-profit) |
82 |
Fort Worth |
Everest College-Fort Worth (Private for-profit) |
770 |
Fort Worth |
Remington College-Fort Worth Campus (Private for-profit) |
703 |
Fort Worth |
Tarrant County College District (Public) |
49,108 |
Fort Worth |
Westwood College-Ft Worth (Private for-profit) |
397 |
Fort Worth |
Kaplan College-Fort Worth (Private for-profit) |
417 |
Friendswood |
Texas School of Business-Friendswood Inc (Private for-profit) |
300 |
Gainesville |
North Central Texas College (Public) |
9,461 |
Galveston |
Galveston College (Public) |
2,322 |
Garland |
Remington College-Dallas Campus (Private for-profit) |
1,260 |
Grand Prairie |
Lincoln College of Technology (Grand Prairie) (Private for-profit) |
1,789 |
Harlingen |
6,804 |
|
Hillsboro |
Hill College (Public) |
4,448 |
Houston |
402 |
|
Houston |
Westwood College-Houston South (Private for-profit) |
450 |
Houston |
Remington College-North Houston Campus (Private for-profit) |
675 |
Houston |
Remington College-Houston Campus (Private for-profit) |
504 |
Houston |
College of biblical studies-Houston (Private, non-profit) |
1,461 |
Houston |
American Intercontinental University (Private, for-profit) |
474 |
Houston |
Texas School of Business Inc (Private for-profit) |
502 |
Houston |
ITT Technical Institute-Houston North (Private for-profit) |
1,103 |
Houston |
Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service (Private not-for-profit) |
150 |
Houston |
Center for Advanced Legal Studies (Private for-profit) |
255 |
Houston |
ITT Technical Institute-Houston West (Private for-profit) |
762 |
Houston |
Houston Community College (Public) |
55,596 |
Houston |
Mti College Of Business And Technology (Private, for profit) |
147 |
Houston |
The Art Institute Of Houston (Private, for profit) |
1,601 |
Houston |
Universal Technical Institute Of Texas Inc (Private, for profit) |
3,000 |
Houston |
Culinary Institute Inc (Private for-profit) |
210 |
Houston |
Sanford-Brown College (Houston) (Private for-profit) |
1,713 |
Houston |
San jacinto college-North Campus (Public) |
n/a |
Houston |
San jacinto college-South Campus (Public) |
n/a |
Houston |
Vet Tech Institute of Houston (Private for-profit) |
214 |
Irving |
North Lake College (Public) |
11,782 |
Jacksonville |
Jacksonville College-Main Campus (Public) |
560 |
Jacksonville |
Lon Morris College (Private not-for-profit) |
1,064 |
Kilgore |
Kilgore College (Public) |
6,691 |
Killeen |
Central Texas College (Public) |
23,611 |
Lake Jackson |
Brazosport College (Public) |
4,176 |
Lancaster |
Cedar Valley College (Public) |
6,258 |
Laredo |
Kaplan College-Laredo (Private for-profit) |
267 |
Laredo |
Laredo Community College (Public) |
10,025 |
Levelland |
South Plains College (Public) |
10,210 |
Lubbock |
Kaplan College-Lubbock (Private for-profit) |
418 |
Lubbock |
American Commercial College (Private, for profit) |
254 |
Lufkin |
Angelina College (Public) |
5,927 |
Marshall |
941 |
|
Mcallen |
Kaplan Career Institute - McAllen (Private for-profit) |
873 |
Mcallen |
South Texas College (Public) |
29,054 |
Mckinney |
Collin College (Public) |
38,895 |
Mesquite |
Eastfield College (Public) |
12,806 |
Midland |
Kaplan College-Midland (Private for-profit) |
357 |
Midland |
Midland College (Public) |
6,413 |
Mount Pleasant |
3,225 |
|
Odessa |
Odessa College (Public) |
5,236 |
Orange |
Lamar State College-Orange (Public) |
2,651 |
Paris |
Paris Junior College (Public) |
6,214 |
Pasadena |
San Jacinto Community College (Public) |
28,612 |
Port Arthur |
Lamar State College-Port Arthur (Public) |
2,495 |
Ranger |
Ranger College (Public) |
1,612 |
Richardson |
ITT Technical Institute-Richardson (Private for-profit) |
796 |
San Antonio |
Sanford-Brown College (San Antonio) (Private for-profit) |
617 |
San Antonio |
Baptist Health System School of Health Professions (Private for-profit) |
543 |
San Antonio |
San Antonio College (Public) |
25,563 |
San Antonio |
St. Philip's College (Public) |
10,902 |
San Antonio |
Kaplan College-San Antonio-San Pedro Campus (Private for-profit) |
923 |
San Antonio |
Hallmark College of Technology/Hallmark College of Aeronautics (Private for-profit) |
664 |
San Antonio |
International Academy of Design and Technology (San Antonio) (Private for-profit) |
810 |
San Antonio |
Palo Alto College (Public) |
9,117 |
San Antonio |
Northwest Vista College (Public) |
16,023 |
San Antonio |
Galen College of Nursing-San Antonio (Private for-profit) |
876 |
San Antonio |
Kaplan College-San Antonio (Private for-profit) |
807 |
San Antonio |
ITT Technical Institute-San Antonio (Private for-profit) |
890 |
San Antonio |
Career Point College (San Antonio) (Private for-profit) |
1,422 |
Snyder |
Western Texas College (Public) |
2,306 |
Sweetwater |
1,429 |
|
Temple |
Temple College (Public) |
5,968 |
Terrell |
Southwestern Christian College (Private not-for-profit) |
221 |
Texarkana |
Texarkana College (Public) |
4,610 |
Texas City |
College of the Mainland (Public) |
4,396 |
The Woodlands |
Lone Star College System (Public) |
54,404 |
Tyler |
Tyler Junior College (Public) |
11,904 |
Uvalde |
Southwest Texas Junior College (Public) |
6,236 |
Vernon |
Vernon College (Public) |
3,167 |
Victoria |
Victoria College (Public) |
4,323 |
Waco |
5,443 |
|
Waco |
McLennan Community College (Public) |
9,915 |
Weatherford |
Weatherford College (Public) |
5,711 |
Webster |
Remington College-Houston Southeast (Private for-profit) |
374 |
Webster |
ITT Technical Institute-Webster (Private for-profit) |
525 |
Wharton |
Wharton County Junior College (Public) |
6,924 |
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Transferring from Community College to a 4-year InstitutionNote: Data has been gathered from the Dept. of Education, schools, and commercial data sources.