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Northern Essex Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Northern Essex is located in the Merrimack Valley in northeastern Massachusetts, just a few miles from the New Hampshire border, our mission is to provide access to quality higher education at an affordable cost.
• We offer post secondary education through the associate degree level, including career programs in areas such as nursing and allied health, computers, criminal justice, paralegal studies, and deaf studies and dozens of transfer programs for students who want to start at Northern Essex and transfer for their junior and senior years, eventually earning a bachelor's degree or higher.
• Excellent facilities, solid academic support services and a dynamic student activity program are part of the educational opportunities available at Northern Essex. Flexible scheduling and the option of completing your degree or certificate at your own pace are hallmarks of a Northern Essex education.
• Northern Essex Community College is justifiably proud of the quality of education and services we offer to our students. Each year over 15,000 individuals study at Northern Essex either full- or part-time. We have a teaching faculty who concentrate their education, experience and effort in the classroom. When your education is completed, you will have the skills needed to join the thousands of Northern Essex graduates who have transferred successfully to baccalaureate programs, or who have become a part of the highly skilled business, industrial and professional work force for which New England is famous.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Schools, police, lawmakers target cyber-bullies (The Eagle-Tribune)
  posted on March 14, 2010 at 06:11:18 am
  The suicide of a teenage girl who was electronically harassed is causing lawmakers to examine the issue.
• Ethel V. Ross (Portsmouth Herald)
  posted on March 13, 2010 at 07:16:02 am
  HAMPSTEAD — Ethel V. (Hoyt) (Consalvi) Ross, 77, wife of Warren K. Ross, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at Exeter Hospital after a brave and arduous battle with cancer.
• Hospital hosts a chocolate and champagne night for women only (The Eagle-Tribune)
  posted on March 12, 2010 at 06:11:39 am
  Merrimack Valley in a Minute
• Region in a Minute (The Eagle-Tribune)
  posted on March 8, 2010 at 06:02:59 am
  ANDOVER — The Massachusetts School of Law trial advocacy team continued its recent run of success in the 2010 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, finishing third in the highly competitive Northeast region.
• Newburyport man eyes run against Baddour (The Eagle-Tribune)
  posted on March 7, 2010 at 05:48:02 am
  It looks like state Sen. Steven Baddour could have an opponent in the fall election. Stephen Cole, a retired electrical engineer who lives in Newburyport, has taken out papers to run for state senator as a Republican.

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