On September 16, 1946, the first Montgomery College classes were held in the evenings at a local high school with a student body of 186 men and women. Over the past half-century the College has grown to a multicampus institution with more than 20,000 credit students and 15,000 Continuing Education students.
By the fall of 1950, the College had acquired the buildings and seven acres previously occupied by the Bliss Electrical School. This new home in Takoma Park became the first campus of Montgomery College. A second campus, the Rockville Campus, opened in September 1965. The Germantown Campus opened in September 1975 with classes held temporarily in Seneca Valley High School. Since the fall of 1978, the Germantown Campus has been located in permanent college facilities in Germantown, Maryland.
Montgomery College is public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. in the United States. The college has three campuses, the largest of which is in Rockville; the other campuses are in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and Germantown. Off-campus sites include the Business Training Center in Gaithersburg and Westfield South in Wheaton, which are operated by the college's Workforce Development and Continuing Education division.
Montgomery College has an enrollment of nearly 60,000 credit and noncredit students. Of the Montgomery County Public School graduates who choose to stay in Maryland for college, 60% attend Montgomery College within the following academic year. The school is noted as being one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in the nation, with students from over 170 countries enrolled. The college also employs more than 1,500 faculty members.
The college was organized in 1946 as "Montgomery Junior College," with its campus located at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. In 1950, the college moved to Takoma Park, Maryland, absorbing the Bliss Electrical School, which had occupied the site.
The Rockville Campus opened in 1965; the Germantown Campus opened in 1975 and has occupied its present permanent site since 1978. Montgomery College also offers learning opportunities through its extensive Workforce Development and Continuing Education programs.
The Takoma Park Campus began expanding into neighboring Silver Spring, with the opening of a new Health Sciences Center in January 2004. The campus expansion in Silver Spring included the addition of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Arts Center, which opened in fall 2007. The building houses the campus visual arts programs and the School of Art + Design, formerly the Maryland College of Art and Design, which merged with Montgomery College in September 2004. To reflect the campus expansion into Silver Spring, the Board of Trustees officially renamed the Takoma Park campus as the "Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus" in June 2005.
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| Percent of Students International: | 7% |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | In-District | In-State | Out-of-State |
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 3,708 | $ 7,236 | $ 9,612 |
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 2,790 | $ 5,730 | $ 7,710 |
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 918 | $ 1,506 | $ 1,902 |
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 3,148 | 28% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 1,074 | 16% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 1,509 | 12% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 2,841 | 8% | |
Any Aid: |
41% |
