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| Overall Score On StateUniversity.com (about) | 66.2 |
| Total CostOn-Campus Attendance | $2,296 |
| AdmissionSuccess rate | N/A |
| Student RatioRatio of students to faculty | 25 : 1 |
| Retention(Full-Time / Part-Time) | 78% / 54% |
| EnrollmentTotal (all students) | 29,935 |
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Mt. San Antonio College, located in Walnut, Calif., is one of that state’s 112 community colleges. Mt. SAC, as it is known among students, serves nearly 20 communities and a million residents in the San Gabriel Valley.
Mt. San Antonio opened its 400-acre campus in 1946 with an initial enrollment of 635 students. Today, enrollment at Mt. SAC is at 40,000 students and the college offers more than 200 degree and certificate programs.
Mt. SAC has eight different academic divisions and departments: Arts, Business, Continuing Education, Humanities and Social Services, Natural Science, Library and Learning Resources, Physical Education, and Technology and Health. Students can earn an associate of arts degree or an associate of science degree, depending on their major.
The Arts Division offers a fine arts and performing arts program that has received local, state, national and international recognition. Degrees and courses are offered in a range of disciplines, including theater arts and music. Classes and public performances are conducted in the college’s Sophia B. Clarke Performing Arts Center. The Business Divisions offers 30 Associate degrees and more than 80 certificates. The Humanities and Social Sciences Division, the largest division at Mt. SAC, offer a broad selection of general education courses in art history, communications, language arts (English, American Sign Language, and foreign languages), literature, history, geography, journalism, political science, philosophy, psychology, education, and sociology. Humanities and Social Sciences is also home to the Mt. SAC Honors and Study Abroad programs. The Humanities Division also provides tutoring, the Writing Center, and the Speech & Sign Center.
The Division of Technology and Health offers 13 areas of study, including aeronautics transportation, aircraft maintenance, electronics and computer technology, manufacturing technology, public service, medical services, mental health, nursing, and respiratory therapy.
Mt. SAC offers an Associate in Science Degree in Radio Broadcasting, which emphasizes radio on-air performance skills and prepares students for an entry-level job in the radio broadcasting Industry, including disc jockey, news anchor, sportscaster and commercial voice-over actor.
Mt. SAC also offers a number of online classes that are delivered primarily via the Internet and have few or no meetings on campus. Students can also participate in hybrid classes, which are partly delivered via the Internet but can include required on-campus meetings. Online classes offered to students in the spring of 2011, for example, ranged from a hybrid Understanding the Visual Arts course to an online Microcomputer Applications class.
The college also offers the ACES Program, which is funded by a $220,000 annual grant from the U.S. Department of Education. ACES assists low-income students, disabled students, and students who are the first in their family to attend college to obtain an Associates degree and transfer from Mt. San Antonio College to a four-year institution. ACES services include individualized academic, transfer, career and financial aid counseling, tutoring and guided study groups. cultural enrichment activities, referrals to college and community resources, a state of the art computer lab, and mentoring.
Mt. SAC’s continuing education program serves more than 58,000 students a year and offers 11 free non-credit programs, including a Child Development Careers program, an English as a Second Language program, and WIN, a program designed to assist student-athletes in maintaining their academic eligibility and preparing to transfer to a four-year university. The WIN program services 400 to 650 student athletes a year.
Mt. San Antonoi College participates in the Southern California Foothills Consortium for Study Abroad, a cooperative venture share y 11 community colleges in California. In the fall semester, the college is offering students the chance to study in London, England, a semester-long program at Citrus College in that city.
The Mt. SAC Honors Program meets the needs of students with a strong academic records, offering honors sections of general education courses, seminar-style classes, and special projects and activities. Honors courses strengthen students’ college transcripts and increase their chances of transferring to four-year institutions.
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Anyone over the age of 18 can apply for admission to Mt. SAC by completing the college’s online application and submitting officials transcripts from any high schools, colleges or trade schools attended.
Mt. SAC also offers a College Starter program to high school juniors and seniors interested in taking advanced scholastic or vocational work at the college.
Students must take course placement tests at the Mt. SAC Assessment Center before registering for classes because many classes have skill prerequisites that must be met by incoming students. All new students and first-time transfer students must attend a Mt. SAC orientation before registering for classes unless exempted.
Mt. SAC offers a variety of federal, state and private financial aid programs, including aid from the Mt. SAC Foundation. Type of aid include grants, work-study opportunities, scholarships and loans. All students may be eligible for some form of assistance based on their financial need. Students must file a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form.
The Mt. SAC Scholarship Program offers nearly $250,000 in scholarships to students each academic year. Students apply for scholarships in the spring, for use during the following academic year.
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Mt. SAC is a community college, so students commute and no housing is available on campus. But the Associated Students organization keeps a log of available housing and rental properties in the surrounding region. Students looking for rentals or roommates can have their information listed by the Student Life Center.
There are 40 student clubs and organizations on campus, including an active Student Government, a flying team, a Taiwanese student association, a Muslim Students Association, Meals for Mankind, a Japanese Pop Culture Club, an International Students Club, an Italian Club, Honors Ambassadors, and Future Teachers of America. There is a student-run newspaper, The Mountaineer, which also has an online edition. And the campus radio station, KSAK, won three Golden Mike awards at the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California’s annual awards ceremony in January 2011.
There are plenty of campus events as well, including an annual Athletics Fair and BBQ, movie days, ping pong tournaments, blood drives, concerts, and an annual Culture Fair.
The Student Center is a focal point for activities and programs, social functions, lectures, and club meetings. The Center has study lounges, TV lounges and free wireless Internet. A variety of games can also be checked out at the Studet Center, including table tennis equipment, chess boards, and Trivial Pursuit games.
Mt. SAC offers a number of restaurants and coffee shops, including the Campus Cafe, a sit-down restaurant the serves three meals a day; the Common Grounds Coffee House, which serves Starbucks beverages; and Mountie Grill, a fast food burger place. Students can also pick up snacks and supplies at five campus convenience stores.
The Mt. SAC campus also has a Wellness Center for students, which houses exercise equipment including treadmills, stationary bikes, ellipticals, stairmasters, rowing machines, exercise balls, and strength training equipment. And aerobics studio at the Center can accommodate 50, and offers classes including yoga, step, kickboxing, and cardio dance. The Wellness Center offers three-, six- and 12-month memberships, along with discounted semester rates.
The college also has a popular Performing Arts Series, which includes four theater productions each year, two dance concerts, wind ensemble, percussion ensemble, jazz band concerts, and performances by its chamber choir and concert choir.
The cultural diversity at Mt. San Antonio is about 44 percent Hispanic/Latino, 17 percent Caucasian/white, 26 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, and 6 percent African American.
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Over the past seven years, the Mt. San Antonio Mounties have captured four second place, one fourth place, one sixth place and one championship in the annual National Alliance of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators Cup, a national community college athletic program. Since 2000, Mt. SAC teams also have won 22 state California Community College Athletic Association championships.
Mt. SAC athletic facilities include Hilmer Lodge Stadium, home to the college’s football and track and field programs. The stadium seats 13,000. The Marie T. Mills Aquatic Center, which houses a 50 meter, 25-yard Olympic sized swimming pool and is home to Mt. SAC’s swimming, diving and water polo teams. The college also has a wellness center, a cross country course, tennie courts and a softball stadium.
| Surrounding community | Large suburb (inside urban area but outside city, pop. over 250,000) | ||||
| Total Population | 45,106 (45,025 urban / 81 rural) | ||||
| Households | 12,986 (3.46 people per house) | ||||
| Median Household Income | $73,943 | ||||
| Families | 11,499 (3.65 people per family) | ||||
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about 4 years ago
I attended computer applications in the fall. Her method of teaching was too fast, and too much homework. The students and I felt she wasn't there to teach us, just get her pay check. We would like to know when Your Teachers are evaluated? During the semister or after. I stopped attending the last two classes. We never received an evaluation for her. We had a Sub around Thanksgiving wk. That Sub. said she would never sub for our teacher again. There were no instructions for the Sub.
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I recently returned to college after 20 years in the work force. I have mixed reviews on the quality of education received. My experience's both in Math and English were exceptional, and I feel that I really grew and refreshed my abilities in both areas. However, I also took a course in Sociology, and it was terrible. Similar to the comments below, I feel as though the professor was there to earn a paycheck, rather than provide information that provides for a quality education. I was forced to spend over $140 in classroom materials, and then told by the professor that we would never use or open the $85.00 book in class. In fact, learning the concepts in the book was completely up to the student, and the test questions were taken directly out of the text. So ultimately, I spent 16 weeks memorizing text. I ended up with an "A" in the class, but I learned absolutely nothing! Pretty disappointing, especially since the professor was the Dept. Chair. He must have paid someone to get his title!!