Kingsborough one of the top
ten community colleges in the
nation!Kingsborough will give you the skills and experience you need to
get started in some of today's fastest-growing fields. You'll find:
Day and evening classes
Low tuition
Small classes so you get individual attention
Career preparation and job placement
Excellent, caring faculty (almost 90% have doctoral degrees)
Beautiful waterfront campus (with its own beach!)
We
offer two-year associate degrees and certificates in over 30 programs.
Kingsborough is a great place to get a head start on life. Here is a
short video that should give you some ideas about what Kingsborough is
about.
Great thing about Kingsborough is you can come here while in high
school and after finishing high school.
COLLEGE NOW offers credit-bearing
and college
preparatory courses without tuition and book fees. Classes meet either
before
or after the regular school day. Course offerings are in areas of
Behavioral
and Social Sciences, Business, Communications, English, Humanities,
Mathematics
and Science. They are taught by high school faculty who have met all
requirements to be hired as an adjunct instructor in the appropriate
department
at the college. Students may also participate in freshman orientation
courses
designed to help them make a smooth transition from high school to
college.
Student development courses are offered at KingsboroughCommunity College in the summer and
throughout the
year at various high schools. They are taught by college counselors and
cover
topics such as choosing a major, study techniques, time and money
management,
career planning and goal settings.
Upon
successful completion
of coursework through COLLEGE NOW,
students will have an official college transcript
on file at KingsboroughCommunity College.
They may request that this
transcript be forwarded to the college of their choice by completing an
application available from the COLLEGE NOW
office at each school. Most COLLEGE
NOW
courses also quality for City
University of New York "College Preparatory Initiative" (CPI)
units.
Kingsborough Community College is located on a 70-acre campus in
Manhattan Beach, on the southern tip of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in
1963, the College serves approximately thirty thousand students per
year, offering a wide range of credit and non-credit courses in the
liberal arts and career education, as well as a number of specialized
programs.
The breathtaking Kingsborough Community
College campus overlooks three bodies of water: Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica
Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Kingsborough
serves a widely
diverse student population and ranks among the top community colleges
in the country in associate degrees awarded to minority students.