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Ocean County College-Toms River

College Drive, Toms River, NJ 08754

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School Description

Provided by Ocean County College-Toms River

For more than 40 years, Ocean County College, a public two-year community college sponsored by Ocean County and the State of New Jersey, has provided area residents with the opportunity to benefit from higher education.

OCC offers students a chance for a new beginning, a chance to grow, a chance to learn, and a chance to discover the world around them - all within a supportive yet innovative environment.

It is the mission of Ocean County College to foster excellence and a caring environment through its commitment to:

* Offer comprehensive educational programs that develop intentional learners of all ages and ensure the full assessment of student learning in these programs;
* Provide broadly-based student support, starting from our initial contact with every individual, regardless of his or her unique needs;
* Measure employee attitudes toward the workplace and student attitudes toward the learning experience and make responsive adjustments in institutional strategies;
* Provide a well-designed campus and facilities with advanced technology;
* Address our human resource needs by recruiting and hiring highly qualified people and continuing to develop the potential of each employee;
* Generate and manage fiscal resources to best serve strategic priorities;
* Organize a leadership team committed to outreach, development, engagement, institutional effectiveness, and a fully realized implementation of the college's vision;
* Reach out to members of the Ocean County community and beyond in order to create meaningful, fulfilling, and mutually beneficial partnerships.

Ocean County College offers credit and non-credit courses at its main campus located on 275 picturesque acres in the county seat of Toms River, and at the Southern Education Center in Stafford Township. Both locations are easily accessible from the Garden State Parkway and local highways.

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Ocean County College-Toms River

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Ocean County College is an accredited, coeducational, two-year, public, community college located in Ocean County, New Jersey. Its main campus is in Toms River. Other locations include the Southern Education Center in Manahawkin and over twenty off-campus sites throughout Ocean County.

The Toms River campus also houses the Fine Arts Center and the Robert J. Novins Planetarium.Both offer programming for the local community.

The school enrolls 9,448 students (as of Spring 2009) in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs, and certificate programs. The school offers credit, noncredit, transfer, honors, career, licensing, business education training, continuing and professional education programs, day, evening, weekend, off-campus, Internet and distance learning courses.

Ocean County College offers other programs such as the Honors Program,designed specifically to meet the needs of highly motivated students interested in interdisciplinary studies, independent study projects and exploration of academic areas in addition to their selected major; The Communiversity, which is an alliance of seven higher education institutions offering undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs; the Academy for Lifelong Learningprogram and the Tech Prep Program, which is a rigorous and focused course of study designed to provide the middle fifty percent of the student population with both the essential academic and technical foundations.

Ocean County College is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, having been first accredited in 1969 and most recently reaccredited in 2004. The school is approved by the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education of the New Jersey Department of Education.

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Quick Facts

Location:
Mid-Atlantic
Setting:
Large Town Setting
Type:
Public
Size:
Large (5,000 to 10,000 Undergrad)
Nickname:
OCC

Students & Campus Life

Full Time Students:
65%
Athletic Programs:
Unavailable
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Expenses

Average Tuition:
$ 5,616
Students Receiving Aid:
34%
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Degree Programs at Ocean County College-Toms River

Associate's Level Programs

  • Agriculture and Natural Resources

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      • Environmental Science
        A program that focuses on the application of biological, chemical, and physical principles to the study of the physical environment and the solution of environmental problems, including subjects such as abating or controlling environmental pollution and degradation; the interaction between human society and the natural environment; and natural resources management. Includes instruction in biology, chemistry, physics, geosciences, climatology, statistics, and mathematical modeling.
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  • Arts & Humanities

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      • General Studies
        An undifferentiated program that includes instruction in the general arts, general science, or unstructured studies.
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      • Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
        A program that is a structured combination of the arts, biological and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, emphasizing breadth of study. Includes instruction in independently designed, individualized, or regular programs.
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  • Business

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      • Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
        Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science programs are two year programs for individuals seeking a career as administrative assistants and/or secretaries and stenographers. These programs include instruction in business communications, principles of business law, word processing and data entry, office machines operation and maintenance, office procedures, public relations, secretarial accounting, filing systems and records management, and report preparation.
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      • Business Administration and Management
        Generally, this program prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control a firm or organization. To aid them in taking a leading role in business, individuals in this program study management theory, human resources management and behavior, accounting and other quantitative methods, purchasing and logistics, organization and production, marketing, and business decision-making.
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      • Business/Commerce
        This program provides a general study of business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public and private institutions and agencies. The programs may prepare individuals to apply business principles and techniques in various occupational settings.
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  • Communication & Media

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    • General Journalism
      A program that focuses on the theory and practice of gathering, processing, and delivering news and that prepares individuals to be professional print journalists, news editors, and news managers. Includes instruction in news writing and editing; reporting; photojournalism; layout and graphic design; journalism law and policy; professional standards and ethics; research methods; and journalism history and criticism.
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  • Engineering

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    • General Engineering
      A program that generally prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to solve a wide variety of practical problems in industry, social organization, public works, and commerce.
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  • Health & Medical Services

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      • Histologic Technician
        A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of histotechnologists and other clinical laboratory scientists, to prepare and process tissue samples and perform routine histologic procedures and tests. Includes instruction in fixation, dehydration, embedding, sectioning, decalcification, microincineration, mounting, routine and special steaming, laboratory mathematics, laboratory procedures and safety, instrumentation and microscopy, computer applications, preparation of museum specimens, and recording and administrative procedures.
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    • Medical Assistant Professions See more schools with programs in Medical Assistant Professions
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      • Nursing - Registered Nurse Training (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)
        A program that generally prepares individuals in the knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for sick, disabled, informed, or other individuals or groups. Includes instruction in the administration of medication and treatments, assisting a physician during treatments and examinations, Referring patients to physicians and other health care specialists, and planning education for health maintenance.
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  • Security and Protective Service Careers

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    • Criminal Justice/Police Science
      A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of police and public security officers, including patrol and investigative activities, traffic control, crowd control and public relations, witness interviewing, evidence collection and management, basic crime prevention methods, weapon and equipment operation and maintenance, report preparation and other routine law enforcement responsibilities.
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  • Social Work

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    • General Social Work
      A program that prepares individuals for the professional practice of social welfare administration and counseling, and that focus on the study of organized means of providing basic support services for vulnerable individuals and groups. Includes instruction in social welfare policy; case work planning; social counseling and intervention strategies; administrative procedures and regulations; and specific applications in areas such as child welfare and family services, probation, employment services, and disability counseling.
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  • Technician Careers

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      • Civil Engineering Technology/Technician
        Apply basic engineering principles and learn to support of civil engineers in this technical program. Students take coursework in site analysis, structural testing procedures, field and laboratory testing procedures, plan and specification preparation, test equipment operation and maintenance, and report preparation.
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  • Technology

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      • Computer and Information Sciences
        A general program that focuses on computing, computer science, and information science and systems as part of a broad and/or interdisciplinary program. Such programs are undifferentiated as to title and content and are not to be confused with specific programs in computer science, information science, or related support services.
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Students

General

Full-Time vs. Part-Time
Full-Time 65%
Part-Time 35%
Race/Ethnicity
Caucasian 82%
Other 6%
Hispanic 6%
African-American 4%
Asian 2%

Geography

In State vs. Out-of-State
In-State 99%
Out-of-State 1%
Top States for Incoming Freshman
New Jersey 99%
Maryland 0%
California 0%
New York 0%
Pennsylvania 0%
Percent of Students International: 0%
Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) In-District In-State Out-of-State
Published Tuition and Fees:
 $ 2,862 $ 3,672 $ 5,616
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads:
 $ 2,214 $ 3,024 $ 4,968
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads:
 $ 648 $ 648 $ 648
Financial Aid Avg. Amount Received % of Students Receiving Aid  
Federal Grants:
 $ 2,772 21%  
State and Local Grants:
 $ 1,514 20%  
Student Loans:
 $ 2,633 13%  
Any Aid:
   34%  

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