Northern Virginia Community College is a comprehensive institution of higher education, offering programs of instruction generally extending not more than two years beyond the high school level.
College Transfer Education
The College transfer program includes freshman and sophomore courses in arts and sciences and preprofessional programs meeting standards acceptable for transfer to baccalaureate degree programs in four-year colleges and universities. NVCC transfer courses closely parallel courses at four-year institutions. Since requirements vary among four-year schools, if you are planning to transfer, you should check the requirements of the receiving institution before you plan your course of study at NVCC. See "Transfer Credit and Advanced Standing--Transferring to Other Colleges" in the Administrative Section.
Occupational Technical Education
The occupational and technical education programs are designed to meet the increasing demand for technicians, office workers, para-professionals, and skilled craftspersons for employment in industry, business, the professions, and government. These programs, which normally require two years or less of training beyond high school, may include preparation for agricultural, business, engineering, health and medical, industrial, service, and other technical and occupational fields. The curricula are planned primarily to meet the needs for workers in the region being served by the College, but the State Board for Community Colleges may designate certain community colleges as centers to serve larger areas of the state in offering expensive and highly specialized occupational and technical education programs.
General Education
The courses in general education encompass the common knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for personal effectiveness, as well as for effectiveness as an employee, a consumer, and a citizen. These include the basic courses required of all students in the occupational and technical education program and in the College transfer program.
Developmental Studies
Developmental courses are offered to prepare you for admission to the College transfer and occupational technical programs. These courses are designed to develop the basic skills and understandings needed for success in other courses and curricula.
English As A Second Language (ESL) Programs
The College has ESL programs designed to prepare you for success in the community and workplace and for enrollment in the College’s credit courses. The ESL programs emphasize development of the writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills necessary for success in college level courses. You are placed into various levels of proficiency by the English Placement Test (EPT). The credit program is available for most of you who score at Level II or above on the EPT. This program leads you directly into academic study. In-state and out-of-state tuition guidelines apply to the credit ESL programs, and financial aid is available for those who qualify. For those of you who score below Level II or who do not meet the F-1 student visa admission requirements of the College, a complete program may be available through Continuing Education. These courses are designed to meet the needs of each campus and the community it serves.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education programs are offered to enable you to continue your learning experiences. This may include credit and non-credit work offered during the day and evening hours.
Community Education
The College provides specialized services to help meet the cultural and educational needs of the citizens of the Northern Virginia area. These services include non-classroom and non-credit cultural events, workshops, meetings, lectures, conferences, seminars, short courses, and special community projects which are designed to provide needed cultural and educational opportunities for the citizens of the region. The College works cooperatively with other local and state agencies and with businesses interested in developing such services. The College facilities also are available insofar as possible to four-year colleges and universities desiring to offer extension programs at the level of the third and fourth year of college and of graduate education in the region, subject to the prior approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Workforce Development Program
Northern Virginia Community College is a participant in the Virginia Community College System's Virginia Works program, a community alliance that aims to provide a highly skilled workforce now and in the future and to strengthen the quality and availability of workforce services to business and industry. As a partner in this alliance, Northern Virginia Community College stands ready to join with others to make sure that Virginia Works! For more information, call the director of Continuing Education and Workforce Development on any NVCC campus.
Workforce development instruction is designed to assist Virginia residents in gaining skills necessary for entering employment and/or to retrain persons displaced from other jobs so that they may obtain gainful employment. These programs are usually of a short-term nature and are tailored to fit the exact needs of a company. The training sites for these programs may be any suitable space within the Commonwealth of Virginia approved by the Virginia Community College System.
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