Southwest Tennessee Community College
Tel:
(901) 333-5000
- Southwest has an outstanding and highly dedicated faculty and staff who are committed to your success. Our mission is to anticipate and respond to the educational needs of students, employers, and communities within our service area. We strive to provide an effective teaching and learning environment designed to raise educational levels, enhance economic development, and enrich personal lives. As a comprehensive, open-access, culturally diverse, public two-year college, Southwest is committed to meeting the educational needs of individual students, communities, and employers through credit and non-credit instruction using both distance learning technology and traditional campus-based classes. Southwest promotes student success in a supportive teaching and learning environment designed to raise educational levels, promote work readiness skills, enhance career advancement, prepare for university transfer, and enrich personal lives.
School Highlights
Southwest Tennessee Community College serves 10,227 students (41% of students are full-time).
The college's student:teacher ratio of 32:1 is higher than the state community college average of 30:1.
Minority enrollment is 63% of the student body (majority Black), which is more than the state average of 26%.
Top Placements
Southwest Tennessee Community College places among the top 20% of community colleges in Tennessee for:
- Category Attribute
- Affordability Least expensive tuition
- Diversity Diversity in US community colleges
- Diversity Average community college minority breakdown
- Community Size Largest student body
School Overview
The teacher population of 315 teachers has stayed relatively flat over five years.
| Southwest Tennessee Community College | (TN) Community College Avg. | |
| Institution Level | At least 2 but less than 4 years | Four or more years |
| Institution Control | Public | Private, non-profit |
| Total Faculty | 315 staff | 29 staff |
Source: 2016 (or latest year available) IPEDS
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.
Nearby Schools
The nearest community college to Southwest Tennessee Community College is Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences (0.5 miles away).
- College Location Mi. Students
- Baptist Memorial College of Health SciencesPrivate, non-profit1,170 students | 0.50 Mi1003 Monroe Ave
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 572-2468 0.501,170 - William Moore College of TechnologyPrivate, non-profit249 students | 1.00 Mi1200 Poplar Ave
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 726-1977 1.00249 - Vatterott College-DividendPrivate, for profit667 students | 4.90 Mi2655 Dividend Drive
Memphis, TN 38132
(901) 761-5730 4.90667 - Remington College-Memphis CampusPrivate, non-profit633 students | 5.40 Mi2710 Nonconnah Blvd
Memphis, TN 38132
(901) 345-1000 5.40633 - 1,310 students | 8.40 Mi5100 Poplar Avenue, Suite 132
Memphis, TN 38137
(901) 761-9494 8.401,310
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