Northwest Shoals Community College-Muscle Shoals

Carnegie Foundation Classification

Associate's — Public Rural-serving Medium

General Characteristics

Highest offering	Associate's degree
Calendar System	Semester
Years of college work required	N/A
Variable Tuition

Special Learning Opportunities

Distance Learning
ROTC — Army / Navy / Air Force	— / /
Study Abroad
Weekend College
Teacher Certification

Northwest Shoals Community College-Muscle Shoals Academics

The university has disability services as well, so be sure to inquire about them if needed. Specifically, the university has a Accelerated Program, Cross-Registration, Distance Learning, Dual Enrollment of High School Students, Independent Study, Internships, Liberal Arts/Career Combination, ROTC, Army and Weekend College. Furthermore, when any student is looking for some counseling or other types of support, Career Counseling, Employment Service, Freshman Orientation Program, On-Campus Daycare, Personal Counseling, Placement Service and Veterans Counselor can help. Northwest-Shoals Community College is unique in its study options. There’s never a reason to feel alone in your studies either, since there are academic support services like Extensive Undergraduate Evening or Early Morning Classes, Learning Center, Pre-Admission Summer Program, Remedial Instruction and Tutoring.

The following are the types of degrees and majors offered at Northwest-Shoals Community College.

Health and Clinical Sciences:

Emergency Medical Technology, Nursing (RN), Nursing – Practical, Nursing Assistance

Personal and Culinary Services:

Cosmetology

Popular majors:

forty-three percent liberal arts, twenty-one percent health professions, fourteen percent business per marketing, five percent computer and information sciences, five percent interdisciplinary studies

Business, Management, & Marketing:

Accounting Technology, Administrative/Secretarial Services, Business Administration/Management

Computer Science:

Computer Programming – General, Computer Programming – Specific Applications, Computer/Information Sciences – General, Data Processing Technology, Information Sciences/Systems, Information Technology

Security and Protective Services:

Fire Services Administration, Police Science

Northwest Shoals Community College-Muscle Shoals Admissions

This school did not report their application fee. Transfer student are not ignored. An instance of this, there were two total number of transfer students who applied and two total number of transfer students who were admitted. Admission policy is currently Percent applicants admitted: 100% and Open admission, but with selective admission to some programs. Remember that this can change at any time.

For priority students, financial aid applications are due no later than the 1st of April. It is also very important to submit financial aid applications as quickly as possible, make sure to check with the university about the specific date for this year. the SAT subject section score due date was not reported. SAT and ACT score reports are very important, so you will want to check on the specific dates with the university. Again, The regular application due date was not reported. Will you make it in time? Make sure to know when all the due dates and deadlines take place.

Northwest Shoals Community College-Muscle Shoals Financial Aid

If you are not a need based student, non-need distribution for financial aid is determined by Academics, Art, Athletics, Leadership, Minority Status and Music/Drama. Financial aid forms are FAFSA and Institution’s own financial aid form. Financial aid for students is readily accessible at this school. Financial aid distribution is at fifty-eight percent scholarships per grants and forty-two percent loans per jobs. Likewise, need based financial aid distribution is determined through Job Skills and State/District Residency.

Northwest Shoals Community College-Muscle Shoals Students

The school’s size is approximately three thousand, three hundred and eighty degree-seeking undergrads and five hundred and eighty first-time degree-seeking freshmen. Again, the student body consists of ninety-nine percent in-state students, one percent out-of-state students, eighteen percent part-time students, fifty-seven percent women, forty-three percent men, two percent american indian per alaskan native, fourteen percent black per non-hispanic, one percent hispanic, eighty percent white per non-hispanic, one percent non-resident alien and three percent race per ethnicity unreported. The university is a Public, Community College, Technical College, Two-year, Coed, where 100 percent of the applicants were admitted and Regionally accredited. Again, it is part of an Suburban setting, Large town (10,000 – 49,999) and Commuter campus. Northwest-Shoals Community College offers Associate degrees.

This school features the Suburban setting, Large town (10,000 – 49,999) and Commuter campus. Of course, the school is located 120 miles from Birmingham, 134 miles from Memphis, Tennessee.

Northwest Shoals Community College-Muscle Shoals Athletics

The Patriots are a member of NJCAA. The following sports can be found here:

• Men’s Intercollegiate and Men’s Scholarship Baseball
• Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Basketball
• Men’s Intercollegiate and Men’s Scholarship Cross_country
• Men’s Intercollegiate and Men’s Scholarship Golf
• Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Softball
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Table_tennis
• Women’s Intercollegiate and Women’s Scholarship Volleyball