America’s Top Community Colleges
June 11, 2008 – 4:16 am by Nick
Washington Monthly prepared an extensive ranking for America’s top community colleges. The publication aimed to devote the proper attention to the often neglected community colleges. U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review seem to shun the institutions, which account for a significant amount of US students.
43% of freshmen join community colleges. The rankings are based on the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, which surveys and grades performance. The schools on the current list have a graduation rate of 50% higher than the national average for community colleges.
- Atlanta Technical College GA
- Cascadia Community College WA
- Southern University at Shreveport LA
- Southwestern Community College NC
- Hazard Community and Technical College KY
- North Florida Community College FL
- Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College WI
- Southeast Kentucky Comm. & Tech. College KY
- Zane State College OH
- Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College GA
- Texas State Technical College-Marshall TX
- Lake City Community College FL
- Itasca Community College MN
- South Piedmont Community College NC
- Vermilion Community College MN
- Hawaii Community College HI
- Ellsworth Community College IA
- Chipola College FL
- Martin Community College NC
- Texas State Technical College-West Texas TX
- South Texas College TX
- Skagit Valley College WA
- Valencia Community College FL
- MiraCosta College CA
- Florida Community College at Jacksonville FL
- New Hampshire Comm. and Tech. College NH
- Frank Phillips College TX
- Mesabi Range Comm. and Tech. College MN
- Northwest Vista College TX
- New Mexico State University-Grants NM
