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| Overall Score On StateUniversity.com (about) | 43.3 |
| Total CostOn-Campus Attendance | $4,400 |
| AdmissionSuccess rate | N/A |
| Student RatioRatio of students to faculty | 36 : 1 |
| Retention(Full-Time / Part-Time) | 61% / 50% |
| EnrollmentTotal (all students) | 5,609 |
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Housatonic Community College was founded in 1966 as a branch of Norwalk Community College. In 1967, it became an independent institution, and used using various temporary facilities in Straftford, Conn. In 1971, Housatonic moved to Bridgeport. By 1977 HCC had approximately 2,700 students and moved to a larger, permanent campus, and immediately began experiencing a significant enrollment increase. IBy 2011, the enrollment was just under 6,000 students.
Housatonic Community College is a two-year school located in Bridgeport, CT offering 66 degree and certificate programs along with non-credit continuing education classes.
Housatonic Community College offers degrees in a variety of programs, including accounting, aviation maitenance, business administration, computer information systems, criminal justice, fine arts, graphic design, early childhood education, nursing and others.
Housatonic features an extensive transfer program with the University of Connecticut. Students pursuing business, computer information, criminal justice, early childhood education, graphics, math, health and human services are eligible to enroll into programs that will transfer to UConn. The program is called the Guaranteed Admission Program. It is an agreement between the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut Community College system designed for students who are enrolled in a Liberal Arts transfer program at one of the Connecticut community colleges.
Other transfer agreements are in place with Albertus Magnus College, Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing, Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, Western Connecticut State University, Fairfield University, Marymount College, New York University, Quinnipiac University, Sacred Heart University, the University of Bridgeport, the University of New Haven, Post University and Wheelock College.
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Students must take a placement test if they have not taken a college-level math or English course. SAT scores of 500 in math and 450 in critical reading/writing allow a student to be exempt from a placement test.
Other programs have special degree requirements. The Nursing Program is a cooperative program with Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing, and students enroll at Housatonic in the General Studies Program. There is a separate application into the nursing program. The college’s Occupational Therapy Assistant Program is designed so graduates can work in hospitals, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation centers, clinics, and schools. Students must have completed all required developmental coursework and earned 12 college credits with a minimum GPA of 2.5. The Physical Therapist Assistant Program allows graduates to work at hospitals, rehabilitation centers, private practices, schools, and home care agencies. The program is a cooperative with Naugatuck Valley Community College. Students must have a high school transcript (or G.E.D.) that includes one year each of biology and chemistry, and two years of algebra with grades of “C” or better within the last five years.
Housatonic Community College awards scholarships to deserving students through its Housatonic Community College Foundation. The foundation was started in 1990 by a group of Greater Bridgeport residents and business and arts leaders. It serves to generate funds for Housatonic student scholarships, student emergency assistance, child care assistance for parents enrolled at Housatonic, program enhancements and support of the Housatonic Museum of Art.
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Housatonic Community College surpassed the 6,000-student milestone for enrollment in 2010. There are more than 20 clubs on campus, ranging from the Black Student Union to the Christian Studies Club to the Table Tennis Club.
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Housatonic Community College is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, which has a population of more than 140,000 people and is the state’s largest city. Bridgeport features a number of performing arts venues and outdoor recreational activities. The Downtown Cabaret Theatre features cabaret, children’s theater and concerts. The 228-seat Playhouse on the Green hosts plays and musical events. The Klein Memorial Auditorium is home to the Greater Bridgeport Symphony and the Arena at Harbor Yard hosts sporting events and large concerts. The Black Rock Art Center presents performance artists from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and North and South America.
The museums in Bridgeport cover a range of history. The Discovery Museum and Planetarium shows exhibits on science. The Housatonic Community College Museum of Art has the largest the collection of art for a two-year school in the nation. The Barnum Museum focues on the history surrounding P.T. Barnum, who lived in town and housed his circus there in the winters. And the Beardsley Zoo is the only such entity in Connecticut.
Outdoor recreation opportunities happen at the city’s many parks and is known as “Park City.” The largest is Seaside Park, which is a 375-acre park. There is also the Beardsley Park, Beechwood Park and Pleasure Beach, among others.
For sports, the city features the minor league hockey team the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Nearby Fairfield University competes in Division I sports, with the men’s and women’s basketball teams competing at the Arena at Harbor Yard. The Bridgeport Bluefish are the area’s minor league baseball team.
The school is known for its Housatonic Museum of Art. The museum has one of the most significant collections of any two-year college in the country and includes works by artists such as Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Miro and Chagall. There are also lectures, programs and changing exhibitions in the Burt Chernow Galleries for our students and the community at large, and the museum is known as serving as a rich cultural resource for the Greater Bridgeport. The collection includes works by: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Auguste Rodin, Mary Cassatt, Larry Rivers, Marisol, Giorgio DeChirico, Milton Avery, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselman,Isamu Noguchi, Jim Dine, Christo, Jean Dubuffet, Gustav Klimt, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Pearlstein, Reginald Marsh, Victor Vasarely, Claes Oldenburg, Milton Avery, Aristide Maillol, Alberto Giacometti, and Pierre Renoir.
The Housatonic Library maintains an book collection of more than 50,000 volumes and a periodical collection of approximately 145 titles. The Media Services Department of the library maintains a multi-media collection of film, CDs and audiobooks. The library also has an extensive electronic information resources available including online databases providing full-text access to journal and newspaper articles and other reference sources. The databases cover areas including literature, history, health, business, the social sciences, current news, and general information. There is also a database to search the holdings of more than 441 Connecticut libraries.
| Surrounding community | Midsize city (inside urban area, pop. between 100,000 to 250,000) | ||||
| Total Population | 30,715 (30,715 urban / N/A rural) | ||||
| Households | 10,901 (2.61 people per house) | ||||
| Median Household Income | $31,344 | ||||
| Families | 6,536 (3.35 people per family) | ||||
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