Bossier Parish Community College
Top Ranked (2021): View Rankings
Tel:
(318) 678-6000
- The mission of Bossier Parish Community College is to provide instruction and service to its community. This mission is accomplished through courses and programs that provide sound academic education, broad career and workforce training, continuing education, and varied community services through flexible instructional delivery systems. The College provides a wholesome, ethical, and intellectually stimulating environment in which diverse students develop their academic and workforce skills to compete in a technological society.
School Highlights
Bossier Parish Community College serves 6,596 students (52% of students are full-time).
The college's student:teacher ratio of 33:1 is higher than the state community college average of 32:1.
Minority enrollment is 53% of the student body (majority Black), which is less than the state average of 61%.
Top Rankings
Bossier Parish Community College ranks among the top 20% of community colleges in Louisiana for:
- Category Attribute
- Community Size Largest student body
- Student Earnings Highest graduate earnings (10 years post graduation)
School Overview
The teacher population of 200 teachers has stayed relatively flat over five years.
| Bossier Parish Community College | (LA) Community College Avg. | |
| Carnegie Classification | Associate's Colleges: Mixed Transfer/Vocational & Technical-High Traditional | Associate's--Public Urban-serving Multicampus |
| Institution Level | At least 2 but less than 4 years | At least 2 but less than 4 years |
| Institution Control | Public | Public |
| Total Faculty | 200 staff | 26 staff |
Source: 2019 (or latest year available) IPEDS
School Notes
- Bossier Parish Community College is a two-year, coeducational public institution located in Bossier City, Louisiana. Created by the Louisiana legislature in 1966, the College serves both traditional and non-traditional students from Northwest Louisiana and the surrounding area. Bossier Parish Community College offers programs leading to academic certificates and associate degrees, in addition to courses for transfer and non-credit. The College has an open-admissions policy and offers to individuals, without discrimination, the opportunity to pursue a variety of educational goals at a reasonable cost. A joint resolution of the Louisiana legislature created Bossier Parish Community College as a pilot program. The purpose of the program was to determine a need for, and feasibility of, establishing two-year commuter colleges throughout the state. The College held classes for the first time during the fall of 1967 with 101 students and a faculty of five full-time and three part-time instructors. Bossier Parish Community College has a long tradition of innovation, flexibility, and sensitivity to student needs. The College maintains an educational environment which promotes integrity and inquiry in students, without emphasis on past academic performance; encourages the achievement of full potential and the pursuit of lifelong learning; and promotes continuous improvement and accountability with an effective program for planning, managing, and assessing services and programs of the College. Bossier Parish Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate degree and certificate.
Nearby Schools
The nearest community college to Bossier Parish Community College is Career Technical College-Shreveport (5.0 miles away).
- College Location Mi. Students
- Career Technical College-ShreveportPrivate, for profit303 students | 5.00 Mi1227 Shreveport-Barksdale Hwy
Shreveport, LA 71105
(318) 629-2889 5.00303 - 353 students | 7.60 Mi2010 N Market St
Shreveport, LA 71107
(318) 676-7811 7.60353 - 61 students | 9.80 Mi702 Professional Dr N
Shreveport, LA 71105
(318) 798-3333 9.8061 - 301 students | 12.70 Mi2106 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318) 671-4000 12.70301 - 2,651 students | 13.90 Mi3050 Martin Luther King Dr
Shreveport, LA 71107
(318) 670-6000 13.902,651
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