Approximately 11.5 million students are enrolled in community colleges across the United States.
The most common programs of study offered at community colleges in the US are business/ management/ marketing and health professions/clinical sciences, which are offered at 1,162 and 1,101 colleges respectively. The least common programs are military technologies and religious/ theological vocations, with only 3 and 9 colleges offering them respectively.
More female than male students are enrolled at community college in every state but one (Utah).
Close to 80% of the US's firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency medical personnel are trained at community colleges.
Community college alumni have gone on to careers as varied as bank CEO, Olympic medallist, actor, ambassador, state governor, country music singer, Congressman, ornithologist, chief medical examiner and space shuttle commander.
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Northern Michigan University Northern Michigan University (Northern), located in Michigan's spectacular Upper Peninsula, was founded in 1899 as a teacher college. Northern is now a dynamic four-year, public, coeducational university offering 180 degree ...
