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Briarwood College

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  Briarwood College
2279 Mount Vernon Rd
Southington, CT 064891057
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(860) 628-4751 Ext.
(860) 628-4751 Ext.
(860) 628-4751 Ext.

Type of institution: Private for-profit, 4-year or above
Federal Aid: Institution has a Program Participation Agreement with the US Department of Education for eligible students to receive Pell Grants and other federal aid.
Degrees offered: Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate, Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate, Associate degree, Bachelor degree
Carnegie classification: Associate's--Private For-profit 4-year Primarily Associate's
Number of students: 649 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$25.00

About this School
Briarwood College is a private co-educational residential college located in Southington, Connecticut. Briarwood is known for its mortuary science and criminal justice programs.
 
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$16,620$15,800$15,200
Out of State$16,620$15,800$15,200
Books and Supplies$1,000$1,000$1,000
On-Campus
Room and board$3,600$3,500$3,320
Other Expenses$3,375$3,375$3,375
Off Campus
Room and board$8,505$8,505$8,505
Other Expenses$2,863$2,863$2,863
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses$4,363$4,363$4,363

Financial aid 2005-2006

Financial aid to full-time, first-time undergraduate students

Type of AidPercentage of students receiving aidAverage amount of aid they received
Federal Grants (scholarship/fellowship) 35% $3,374
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 47% $2,174
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 87% $1,925
Loans to students 74% $6,249
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Legal Administrative Assistant + Secretary
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-1-year certificate Legal Administrative Assistant + Secretary: A program that prepares individuals to serve as legal office managers, special assistants, and legal secretaries. Includes instruction in office management, secretarial science, principles of U. S. or Canadian law, legal termin...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
General Office Occupations and Clerical Services
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-1-year certificate General Office Occupations and Clerical Services: A program that prepares individuals to provide basic administrative support under the supervision of office managers, administrative assistants, secretaries, and other office personnel. Includes instruction in typing, key...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Executive Assistant + Executive Secretary
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-1-year certificate Executive Assistant + Executive Secretary: A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of special assistants and/or personal secretaries for business executives and top management. Includes instruction in business communications, principles of business law,...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Pharmacy Technician + Assistant
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-2-year certificate Pharmacy Technician + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of pharmacists, to prepare medications, provide medications and related assistance to patients, and manage pharmacy clinical and business operations. Includes instruction in medic...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Medical Transcription + Transcriptionist
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-2-year certificate Medical Transcription + Transcriptionist: A program that prepares individuals to execute verbatim medical conference minutes, medical reports, and medical orders. Includes instruction in dictation and simultaneous recording, analysis of notes and visual evidence, medical...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Medical Administrative + Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-2-year certificate Medical Administrative + Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary: A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of special assistants and personal secretaries for practicing physicians and nurses, health care facilities and services administrators, and other...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Medical + Clinical Assistant
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-2-year certificate Medical + Clinical Assistant: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians, to provide medical office administrative services and perform clinical duties including patient intake and care, routine diagnostic and recording procedures, pre-examin...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Health Information + Medical Records Technology + Technician
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-2-year certificate Health Information + Medical Records Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of health information administrators and other professionals, to construct medical records and clinical databases, perform manipulations on retrieved d...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Dental Assisting + Assistant
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-2-year certificate Dental Assisting + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to provide patient care, take dental radiographs (x-ray photographs), prepare patients and equipment for dental procedures, and discharge office administrative functions under the supervision of dentists an...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Child Care and Support Services Management
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Less-than-2-year certificate Child Care and Support Services Management: A program that focuses on the provision and management of child care services and that prepares individuals to plan, design, and manage child care facilities and programs that meet children's developmental needs and interests an...

Associate degree
Tourism and Travel Services Management
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Tourism and Travel Services Management: A program that prepares individuals to manage travel-related enterprises and related convention and/or tour services. Includes instruction in travel agency management, tour arranging and planning, convention and event planning, travel industry...

Associate degree
Occupational Therapist Assistant
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Occupational Therapist Assistant: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of occupational therapists, to direct patient participation in skill-enhancing, learning, and motivational tasks; correct or diminish pathologies; and to provide direct health education and p...

Associate degree
Medical Office Management + Administration
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Medical Office Management + Administration: A program that prepares individuals to manage the specialized business functions of a medical or clinical office. Includes instruction in business office operations, business and financial record-keeping, personnel supervision, medical and...

Associate degree
Medical Administrative + Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Medical Administrative + Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary: A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of special assistants and personal secretaries for practicing physicians and nurses, health care facilities and services administrators, and other health care...

Associate degree
Medical + Clinical Assistant
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Medical + Clinical Assistant: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians, to provide medical office administrative services and perform clinical duties including patient intake and care, routine diagnostic and recording procedures, pre-examination and ex...

Associate degree
Legal Assistant + Paralegal
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Legal Assistant + Paralegal: A program that prepares individuals to perform research, drafting, investigatory, record-keeping and related administrative functions under the supervision of an attorney or court. Includes instruction in legal research, drafting legal documents, apprais...

Associate degree
Legal Administrative Assistant + Secretary
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Legal Administrative Assistant + Secretary: A program that prepares individuals to serve as legal office managers, special assistants, and legal secretaries. Includes instruction in office management, secretarial science, principles of U. S. or Canadian law, legal terminology and do...

Associate degree
Hotel + Motel and Restaurant Management
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Hotel + Motel and Restaurant Management: A program that prepares individuals to manage operations and facilities that provide lodging services to the traveling public. Includes instruction in hospitality industry principles; supplies purchasing, storage and control; hotel facilities ...

Associate degree
Health Information + Medical Records Technology + Technician
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Health Information + Medical Records Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of health information administrators and other professionals, to construct medical records and clinical databases, perform manipulations on retrieved data, control...

Associate degree
General Studies
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree General Studies: An undifferentiated program that includes instruction in the general arts, general science, or unstructured studies.

Associate degree
General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations, Other.
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations, Other: Any instructional program in merchandising, sales, and related marketing operations not listed in the General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations, General category.

Associate degree
Funeral Service and Mortuary Science
General
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Funeral Service and Mortuary Science, General: A program that generally prepares individuals for careers in the funeral service industry and for licensure as funeral service directors or morticians. Includes instruction in the basic elements of mortuary science and the business, cou...

Associate degree
Fashion Merchandising
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Fashion Merchandising: A program that prepares individuals to promote product lines/brands, and organize promotional campaigns, at the wholesale level to attract retailer interest, wholesale purchasing, and supply contracts. Includes instruction in wholesaling, wholesale advertising...

Associate degree
Executive Assistant + Executive Secretary
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Executive Assistant + Executive Secretary: A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of special assistants and/or personal secretaries for business executives and top management. Includes instruction in business communications, principles of business law, public rela...

Associate degree
Environmental Control Technologies + Technicians
Other
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Environmental Control Technologies + Technicians, Other: Any instructional program in environmental control technologies not listed in the Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians, General category.

Associate degree
Dietitian Assistant
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Dietitian Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to assist registered dietitians in planning, preparing and serving meals to individuals with specific dietary needs. Includes instruction in equipment use, food preparation, diet regulations, food handling, safety and sanitary...

Associate degree
Dental Assisting + Assistant
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Dental Assisting + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to provide patient care, take dental radiographs (x-ray photographs), prepare patients and equipment for dental procedures, and discharge office administrative functions under the supervision of dentists and dental hyg...

Associate degree
Criminal Justice + Safety Studies
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Criminal Justice + Safety Studies: A program that focuses on the criminal justice system, its organizational components and processes, and its legal and public policy contexts. Includes instruction in criminal law and policy, police and correctional systems organization, the adminis...

Associate degree
Communications Technologies + Technicians and Support Services
Other
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Communications Technologies + Technicians and Support Services, Other: Any instructional program in communications technologies and support services not listed in the Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services, General category.

Associate degree
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other.
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other: Any instructional program in business, management, marketing and related support services not listed in the Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, General category.

Associate degree
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to perform the duties of administrative assistants and/or secretaries and stenographers. Includes instruction in business communications, principles of business law, word process...

Associate degree
Accounting Technology + Technician and Bookkeeping
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Associate degree Accounting Technology + Technician and Bookkeeping: A program that prepares individuals to provide technical administrative support to professional accountants and other financial management personnel. Includes instruction in posting transactions to accounts, record-keeping systems,...

Bachelor degree
Funeral Service and Mortuary Science
General
Briarwood College

General Description for:
Briarwood College Bachelor degree Funeral Service and Mortuary Science, General: A program that generally prepares individuals for careers in the funeral service industry and for licensure as funeral service directors or morticians. Includes instruction in the basic elements of mortuary science and the business, coun...

 
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