Southwest Tennessee Community College

737 Union Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38103 - View a map of this school Map

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Southwest Tennessee Community College is the comprehensive, multicultural, public, open-access college whose mission is to anticipate and respond to the educational needs of students, employers, and communities in Shelby and Fayette counties and the surrounding Mid-South region. The college provides citizens with an effective teaching and learning environment designed to raise educational levels, enhance economic development, and enrich personal lives....

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  • Southwest Tennessee Community College
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County Shelby County, TN -
Title IV Eligible Yes Yes
Carnegie Classification Associate of Arts Colleges Associate of Arts Colleges
Institution Level At least 2 yrs but < 4 yrs At least 2 yrs but < 4 yrs
Institution Control Public Public
Full-Time Undergraduate 5,691 students 1,020 students
Part-Time Undergraduate 5,755 students 1,443 students
Total Enrollment 11,446 students 2,213 students
% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid 84% 78%
% Students Receiving Federal Grants 65% 46%
Avg. Amount Of Federal Grants Received $2,847 $2,845
% Students Receiving State/Local Grants 21% 29%
Avg. Amount Of State/Local Grants Received $1,397 $1,275
% Students Receiving Institutional Grants 5% 12%
Avg. Amount Of Institutional Grants Received $1,902 $1,147

School Notes:

  • Southwest Tennessee Community College has a number of Campuses, Centers, and Sites to make getting your degree more convenient. The Macon Cove Campus at 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN, 38134, is right off the I-40 and I-240 expressways in the eastern part of the city. Southwest's intensive technology programs are based at Macon Cove. Through multiple partnerships, alliances, licensing and certification programs, service grants, and extensive computer training facilities, Southwest has forged strong, mutually supportive ties to business and industry in the metropolitan area. Macon's 100-acre campus offers a suburban ambiance, enhanced by a quiet lake that provides year-round habitat to flocks of ducks and other waterfowl.
  • The College Offers Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Arts, and Associate of Science degrees, academic and technical certificate programs, and courses that prepare students for transfer, employment, and career advancement in areas that include allied health sciences, nursing, business, computer technologies, criminal justice, education, and engineering and related technologies, while continually developing new programs in emerging fields.
  • Southwest is accredited to award associate degrees by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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  • Care center director given award for life's work (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
    posted on March 8, 2010 at 12:00:00 pm
    Mary Palmer, director of Child Care Centers for Southwest Tennessee Community College, received the Stand for Children and United Way of Tennessee's Children's Champion Early Learning Pioneer Award in Nashville on Feb. 16. Palmer is the first recipient of the award, which now will be presented annually. It was created as a way of honoring her life's work with children, according to the Stand for ...
  • Memphis picked again for SBA's "Emerging 200" program (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
    posted on March 5, 2010 at 05:59:00 pm
    For the third consecutive year, Memphis has been selected to participate in the "Emerging 200" program sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration .The initiative, launched in 2008, provides management training, professional contacts and financial guidance for small firms. The SBA says about two-thirds of net new jobs between 1993 and the third quarter of 2008 were created by businesses ...
  • Six Permits Issued For Memphis Airport (The Memphis Daily News)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 06:02:34 am
    Six building permits have been granted to the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority to begin work on the airport’s $121 million ground transportatio....
  • County Pension Fund Sees Slight Drop (The Memphis Daily News)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 06:02:23 am
    The value of Shelby County’s pension fund slipped a little in January, with the month’s 1.8 percent decrease breaking a six-month streak of gains. How....
  • Southwest Receives $250K Construction Grant (The Memphis Daily News)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 06:02:13 am
    Southwest Tennessee Community College has received a $250,000 donation from Follett Higher Education Group to go toward the construction of a new buil....

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