We spoke with Kingsborough Community College to see how to pick the right school that will help you get you to where you need to go.
Pick the school that can help you get where you want to go.
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On May 15th, it was announced that Kingsborough Community College was nominated along with ten other schools for the 2019 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
for its second year in a row. This prize focuses on student learning,
degree completion of both the two year community program and the full
four year degree once the student has transferred, professional success
after graduating, and success of minority and low income students.
In a study performed last year by the National Student Clearinghouse,
they found that only 38% of all students who attend community college
earn their degree from that school. That number may be affected due to
the fact that many students use community college as a way to boost
their chance into being accepted into their undergrad of choice. But you
still have to admit that this number is still pretty low given that
millions of students attend community college every year. So how can
students make sure they are picking the right community college to fit
their life’s plans?
Kingsborough Community College: Setting the example
Choose a school that will help you succeed
According to Tom Friebel, VP for Enrollment Management for
Kingsborough Community College, students should choose a school based on
how that school can help them to succeed. If you want to learn a
specific trade, for example, you should go to a school that would be
able to provide that. But if your goal is to use a community college as a
launching pad to attend another four-year program somewhere else, you
should choose the school that will best help you to make that transfer.
“You want to see where you will be successful,” says
Firebel. Adding to why Kingsborough’s path to success towards getting
recognized by Aspen, it was all about helping their students transfer to
great schools. "Most community colleges across in other parts of the
country provide around 65% of their students to the workforce and 35% to
transfers,” he explained, “Community colleges in the Northeast, like
our school, do the reverse.”
But not only does Kingsborough do a good job at helping
their students find their right path to success by transferring, they
also have the highest graduation and retention rate of all of the CUNY
schools and even saw the rate of students taking six years to complete
their bachelor’s degree fall to 38% in 2017.
So when looking for a community college, consider all of the paths you would like to take and how that school can get you there.
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