Southwest Tennessee Community College Profile

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737 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103

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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 27%.
Southwest Tennessee Community College is one of 9 community colleges within Shelby County, TN.
The nearest community college is Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences (0.50 miles away).

	Southwest Tennessee Community College	(TN) Community College Avg.
Institution Level	At least 2 but less than 4 years	At least 2 yrs but < 4 yrs
Institution Control	Public	Private, non-profit
Total Faculty	315 staff	28 staff

The student population of 10,227 has declined by 20% over five years.
The student:teacher ratio of 32:1 has increased from 29:1 over five years.
The school's diversity score of 0.60 is more than the state average of 0.44. The school's diversity has grown by 17% over five years.

Total Enrollment	10,227 students	585 students

Student : Teacher Ratio	32:1	30:1

# Full-Time Students	4,243 students	369 students

# Part-Time Students	5,984 students	216 students


% Asian	3%	2%

% Hispanic	4%	3%

% Black	51%	17%

% White	37%	73%

% Two or more races	3%	2%

% Non Resident races	1%	-

% Unknown races	1%	3%

Diversity ScoreThe chance that two students selected at random would be members of a different ethnic group. Scored from 0 to 1, a diversity score closer to 1 indicates a more diverse student body.	0.60	0.44

College Completion Rate	5%	30%

Average Graduate Earnings (10 Years)	$28,300	$29,500

The public in-state tuition of $3,843 is less than the state average of $5,313. The in-state tuition has grown by 13% over four years.
The public out-state tuition of $14,907 is more than the state average of $14,779. The out-state tuition has grown by 14% over four years.

In-State Tuition Fees	$3,843	$5,313

Out-State Tuition Fees	$14,907	$14,779

% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid	89%	94%

Median Debt for Graduates	-	$17,000
Median Debt for Dropouts	-	$6,297
Acceptance Rate	100%	83%

SAT Total Avg.	847	980
SAT Reading	430	525
SAT Math	417	455

ACT Total Avg.	48	57
ACT Composite	16	19

ACT English	16	19

ACT Math	16	19

Source: 2016 (or latest year available) IPEDS

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.