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Kalamazoo Valley Community College

6767 West O Ave, Kalamazoo, MI 49003

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Kalamazoo Valley Community College School Description

We are committed to enriching the lives of our students and communities through quality educational programs and services.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College is a fully accredited institution of higher education. We were established by the State of Michigan and the local community to offer one-year certificate and two-year associate degree programs. Our mission includes preparing students for immediate employment upon completion of their program of study, and preparing students to successfully transfer to a four-year college or university.

The majority of our students are from the surrounding community and enrolled on a part-time basis. There are over 130 international students are enrolled at KVCC, representing 46 different countries from around the globe.

KVCC has two campuses, one in downtown Kalamazoo and another eight miles west of the city center. KVCC also governs the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, a public museum of history, science and technology.

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Kalamazoo Valley Community College

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Kalamazoo Valley Community College is a two-year community college in southwest Michigan that offers degrees and certificates in scores of academic programs, occupations and trades. It prepares students for transfer to any four-year university in the country and for entry-level jobs after training in nationally accredited vocational, business, technology, and health-care programs. It also offers workshops and seminars for law enforcement professionals, health care professionals, personal development, supervisory management, computer software, manufacturing processes and many more.

Locations

Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) has locations in downtown Kalamazoo and southwest of Kalamazoo, in Texas Charter Township. The original campus, referred to as the Texas Township Campus, is outside of Kalamazoo's city limits, near the I-94 and US-131 interchange, and adjacent to the Al Sabo Preserve.

KVCC's Arcadia Commons Campus in downtown Kalamazoo includes Anna Whitten Hall, the Center for New Media and the Kalamazoo Valley Museum.

The Michigan Technical Education Center (M-TEC) which is a workforce-development and training entity for Southwest Michigan, is located in the Groves near the Texas Township Campus. The Groves is the college's business-education-technology park that was established in 2001 as an economic-development initiative.

History

The community college district was established by voters in 1966, enrolled its first students in the fall of 1968, and currently enrolls more than 13,500 students. With the selection of Marilyn J. Schlack as its second president in 1982 , KVCC was the first two-year college in Michigan to have a female president.

As recommended by a citizens committee, KVCC assumed the governance of Kalamazoo's public museum, passed a charter tax to support its operations, and successfully completed a $20-million capital campaign to build what is now the Kalamazoo Valley Museum in downtown Kalamazoo. Since its opening in February 1996, it has attracted 1.25 million visitors. In 2004, KVCC opened the Center for New Media as part of the Arcadia Commons Campus to teach the creativity and skills needed by employees in the Information Age that has spawned the worldwide web and e-commerce. Programs include graphic design, video game art, animation, e Business and several more.

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Quick Facts

Location:
Midwest
Setting:
Large Town Setting
Type:
Public
Size:
Very Large (+10,000 Undergrad)

Students & Campus Life

Full Time Students:
59%
Athletic Programs:
Unavailable
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Expenses

Average Tuition:
$ 4,371
Students Receiving Aid:
68%
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Kalamazoo Valley Community College Degree Programs

Associate Degree Programs

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Certificate Programs

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Kalamazoo Valley Community College Students & Campus Life

General

Full-Time vs. Part-Time
Full-Time 59%
Part-Time 41%
Race/Ethnicity
Caucasian 80%
Other 8%
African-American 8%
Hispanic 3%
Asian 1%

Geography

In State vs. Out-of-State
In-State 96%
Out-of-State 4%
Top States for Incoming Freshman
Michigan 96%
Illinois 0%
Georgia 0%
Ohio 0%
Indiana 0%
Percent of Students International: 0%

Kalamazoo Valley Community College Expenses (Tuition & Fees)

Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) In-District In-State Out-of-State
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads:
 $ 2,046 $ 3,255 $ 4,371
Financial Aid Avg. Amount Received % of Students Receiving Aid  
Federal Grants:
 $ 2,849 29%  
State and Local Grants:
 $ 1,429 43%  
Institutional Grants:
 $ 812 11%  
Student Loans:
 $ 2,666 7%  
Any Aid:
   68%  

College Advice on Kalamazoo Valley Community College

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nathaniel_hendrix
nathani...

Question: community college with no pre-med program?

i have completed high school already and i'm applying to kalamazoo valley community college because i have a low GPA (2.6). kvcc does not have a pre-med program though. so i wanted to go there for two years than transfer to a 4 year college, but i don't know what to major or what courses i want to take at the community college. do i need an associate degree or somthing because i don't know what to do??? does medical school really care if i took courses at community college?
19 months ago
RoaringMice
Roari...

Best Answer

If med school is what you want, your goal must be to do very, very well at KVCC and then transfer into the best university you can possibly get into. The quality of your undergraduate university does matter in terms of med school admissions. However, your having gone to a community college won't be an issue at all, so long as you get into a good quality university afterwards, and do well there. This doesn't mean that you have to get into Harvard or the like, but you will want to try to get into something like UMass Amherst, or Rutgers, or U Florida, SUNY Stony Brook, U New Hampshire, or Northeastern - someplace decent, well ranked, maybe ranking top 200 in the US or so. In terms of what to take at KVCC, speak to the transfer counsellors there. Take the classes that are required to allow you to transfer into a very strong university. The unis in your area may require or prefer you to have the full associates from KVCC, or they may be all right if you just take a year of classes - that's for you to learn, as that does vary. You can major in whatever you'd like, both at KVCC and at university. Med schools don't care what you major in, so long as you also do the med school pre req classes that they require. I'll link to an example of that: http://www.washington.edu/uaa/gateway/advising/prehealth/fields/premed.php Notice that some of the classes that are required as pre-reqs for med school, such as general chem with lab, and organic chem with lab, you can take at community college. Do take some of your med school pre-reqs at cc, but save some for university, as med schools don't mind that you took some of them at cc, but they want you to have taken some at a more competitive school. You won't major in pre-med, btw. Pre-med is a system of advisement, not an actual major. Instead, you'll major in an academic subject of your choice. Pick something you like, so you can do really well in it, but it could be bio, chem, physics... or English. It's really your choice, but pick something academic, not vocational. So not welding, for example. And keep your grades high. Your goal is above a 3.4 overall, ideally a 3.6. If you see yourself starting to struggle in any class, do not delay - get a tutor immediately. Your GPA is going to be vital to your med school possibilities. Do not blow it. Ask for help as soon as you realise you need it.

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