Prince George's Community College

Prince George's Community College Summary

Prince George’s Community College is a community college located in Largo, Maryland in Prince George’s County. As of fall 2004, the college serves 12,459 students, 3,317 full time students and 9,142 part time students.

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Prince George's Community College Academics

Prince George’s 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, Reduced Course Load, Remedial Instruction, Study Skills Assistance, Tutoring and Writing Center. The university has disability services as well, so be sure to inquire about them if needed. Additionally, when any student is looking for some counseling or other types of support, Adult (re-entering) student services, Career Counseling, Economically Disadvantaged Student Services, Employment Service, Financial Aid Counseling, Freshman Orientation Program, Health Services, Minority Student Services, On-Campus Daycare, Personal Counseling, Placement Service and Veterans Counselor can help. That is, the university has a Distance Learning, Double Major, Dual Enrollment of High School Students, ESL, Honors Program, Independent Study, Liberal Arts/Career Combination, ROTC, Air Force, ROTC, Army, Teacher Certification and Weekend College.

A unique service is the International Education Center, which helps immigrant and refugee students adapt to US higher education, providing one-on-one faculty assistance. The college cosponsors the county’s International Populations Network of Prince George’s County, for ethnic organizations and those who serve immigrant populations.

The following are the types of degrees and majors offered at Prince George’s Community College.

Psychology:

Psychology – General

Business, Management, & Marketing:

Accounting, Administrative/Secretarial Services, Business Administration/Management, Information Processing/Data Entry, Marketing Management, Office Management

Popular majors:

twenty-five percent liberal arts, twenty-one percent business per marketing, twenty percent health professions, eighteen percent computer and information sciences, eight percent security and protective services

Health and Clinical Sciences:

Emergency Medical Technology, Medical Administrative Assistance, Medical Radiologic Technology, Medical Records Administration, Medical Records Technology, Medical Transcription, Nuclear Medical Technology, Nursing (RN), Nursing – Practical, Premedicine, Prepharmacy, Respiratory Therapy

School of Visual and Performing Arts:

Commercial/Advertising Art, Drama/Theater Arts, Fine/Studio Arts, Music – General

Biological and Biomedical Sciences:

Biology

Education:

Business Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Health Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Physical Education, Science Teacher Education, Secondary Education

Security and Protective Services:

Criminal Justice Studies, Forensic Technologies

Physical Sciences:

Chemistry

Computer Science:

Computer Programming – General, Computer Science, Computer Systems Analysis, Computer/Information Sciences – General, Information Sciences/Systems

Honors program and Honors Academy help top students transfer to U of MD, Georgetown U, George Washington U, Howard U, etc. Students are BOTH full time and part time. Mass Communication is also a popular major.

Further, for international students, the application fee is 25. Are you an international student? The Fall application deadline for international students is the 1st of May.

Prince George's Community College Admissions

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. This school requires an application fee consisting of twenty-five dollars regular application fee, twenty-five dollars out-of-state application fee and twenty-five dollars online application fee. Transfer student are not ignored. An instance of this, there were one thousand, five hundred and eighty-seven total number of transfer students who applied and one thousand, five hundred and eighty-seven total number of transfer students who were admitted.

Will you make it in time? Make sure to know when all the due dates and deadlines take place. the SAT subject section score due date was not reported. It is also very important to submit financial aid applications as quickly as possible, and make sure they are in by the 1st of March. For all student applicants, the Fall application deadline is the 1st of May. For priority students, financial aid applications are due no later than the 1st of June. The regular application 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. Besides,

Prince George's Community College Athletics

The Owls 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, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Golf
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Racquetball
• Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Soccer
• Women’s Intercollegiate and Women’s Scholarship Softball
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Table_tennis
• Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Volleyball

Prince George's Community College Financial Aid

If you are not a need based student, non-need distribution for financial aid is determined by Academics and Athletics. Financial aid forms are FAFSA and Institution’s own financial aid form. In the same way, need based financial aid distribution is determined through Academics, Athletics and State/District Residency. Financial aid for students is readily accessible at this school.

Prince George's Community College Students

The university is a Public, Community College, Two-year, Coed, where 100 percent of the applicants were admitted, Regionally accredited and College Board member. Again, it is part of an Suburban setting, Very large city (over 500,000) and Commuter campus. Additionally, the student body consists of ninety-five percent in-state students, five percent out-of-state students, fifty-five percent part-time students, fifty-seven percent women, forty-three percent men, less than one percent american indian per alaskan native, four percent asian per pacific islander, seventy-eight percent black per non-hispanic, five percent hispanic, seven percent white per non-hispanic, five percent non-resident alien and one percent race per ethnicity unreported. Prince George’s Community College offers Associate degrees. The school’s size is approximately eleven thousand and eleven degree-seeking undergrads and two thousand, one hundred and seven first-time degree-seeking freshmen.

Again, the university has many unique facilites such as natatorium, art gallery. This school features the Suburban setting, Very large city (over 500,000) and Commuter campus. Clearly, the school is located 10 miles from Washington, DC.