East Mississippi Community College (EMCC), also known as East Mississippi Junior College, is a community college system in Mississippi with its headquarters in the Thomas L. Davis, Jr. Administration Building in the Scooba Campus in Scooba.
Home of the 2011 and 2009 MACJC Champions, EMCC Lions Football team.
EMCC serves and is supported by Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Noxubee and Oktibbeha counties in east central Mississippi. The system has two principal campuses and offers courses at three other locations. EMCC offers a broad range of academic and technical programs, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award the Associate of Applied Science degree and the Associate of Arts degree. It is one of fifteen community colleges in Mississippi.
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