Educational Offerings
Besides traditional community college transfer classes, vocational programs, and continuing education courses, such as those designed for students pursuing careers in nursing and business, the college offers a process technology degree for those seeking employment as operators in the refineries and other petroleum-related plants near the college in Texas City.
The college has also launched a collegiate high school program, allowing high school students to complete an associate's degree while finishing their high school diplomas. (It is even technically possible for students to finish their associate's degree before graduating from high school.) The students, unlike dual-credit students, attend all their classes on the college campus.
In 2007, the college announced that it would offer an associate's degree in Bible Studies, with courses beginning in Spring 2008. In a rather unusual arrangement, the college will partner with nearby Abundant Life Ministries of La Marque, Texas, where all the Bible Studies courses will be taught.
As of 2009, student enrollment was 3,527; approximately 47 percent of which were registered in university-parallel degree programa, with 53 percent in vocational programs.
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