Oklahoma City Community College, also referred to as OCCC or O-Triple-C, is a coeducational community college located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The community college was founded in 1972. It currently enrolls 19,700 students. The faculty consists of 134 full-time professors, and 400 adjunct professors. The Oklahoma City Community College is a post-secondary school. Students take classes for a variety of reasons: working towards an associate degree, certificate, transfer course work to a university, or to obtain technical skills.
It offers 36 Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degree programs, 24 Associate in Applied Science degree programs, and 18 Certificate of Mastery programs. Most courses are structured in a semester or 16-weeks. Some courses can be completed in little as 8, 5, or 4 weeks. Courses are mostly taken at the campus itself, with average of 21:1 student to teacher ratio. Courses are also being offered online. The President of the Oklahoma City Community College is Paul Sechrist. Sechrist became the appointed President after the retirement of Robert Todd in 2005.
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