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  Bristol Community College
777 Elsbree St
Fall River, MA 027207395
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(508) 678-2811 Ext.
(508) 678-2811 Ext.
(508) 678-2811 Ext.

Type of institution: Public, 2-year
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-1-year certificate, Associate degree
Carnegie classification: Associate's--Public Urban-serving Single Campus
Number of students: 6,927 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$10.00

About this School
Bristol Community College is a two-year community college in southeastern Massachusetts. It offers associate degrees as well as a transfer program for students to earn credits for transfer to other colleges. BCC offers over 90 academic programs that allow the students to earn an associate degree of science, associate degree of arts, associate of applied science, or a certificate. As of the autumn 2003 semester, BCC had enrolled 6639 day and evening students as of the Fall 2003 semester. The average course, with 3 credits earnable, cost approximately $300 ($100 per credit). The average student paid approximately $2400 in tuition and fees. BCC has its main campus in Fall River. Satellite campuses are located in New Bedford, Attleboro, and Taunton.
 
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$3,012$3,012$3,012
Out of State$7,956$7,956$7,992
Books and Supplies$1,000$1,000$1,000
On-Campus
Room and board------------
Other Expenses------------
Off Campus
Room and board$3,000$3,000$3,000
Other Expenses$2,950$2,950$2,850
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses$2,950$2,950$2,850

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) 28% $2,695
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 29% $1,195
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 2% $595
Loans to students 20% $2,177
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Tourism and Travel Services Management
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate 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 plann...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Public Administration and Social Service Professions
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Public Administration and Social Service Professions, Other: Any instructional program in public administration and services not listed in the Public Administration and Social Service Professions, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Prepress + Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Prepress + Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to the layout, design and typographic arrangement of printed and/or electronic graphic and textual products. Includes instruction...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Personal and Culinary Services
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Personal and Culinary Services, Other: Any instructional program in personal and culinary services not listed in the Personal and Culinary Services, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Office Management and Supervision
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Office Management and Supervision: A program that prepares individuals to supervise and manage the operations and personnel of business offices and management-level divisions. Includes instruction in employee supervision, management, and labor relations; budgetin...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Medical Transcription + Transcriptionist
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-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,...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Medical Office Management + Administration
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate 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 supe...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Medical + Clinical Assistant
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-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, pr...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Massage Therapy + Therapeutic Massage
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Massage Therapy + Therapeutic Massage: A program that prepares individuals to provide relief and improved health and well-being to clients through the application of manual techniques for manipulating skin, muscles, and connective tissues. Includes instruction in...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Marketing
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Marketing, Other: Any instructional program in general marketing and marketing research not listed in the Marketing, General category.

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

General Description for:
Bristol Community 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, lega...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Information Technology
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Information Technology: A program that focuses on the design of technological information systems, including computing systems, as solutions to business and research data and communications support needs. Includes instruction in the principles of computer hardwar...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Information Resources Management + CIO Training
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Information Resources Management + CIO Training: A program that prepares individuals to apply principles of information technology, computer systems management, and business operations to the planning, management, and evaluation of information services in organiza...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Industrial Technology + Technician
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Industrial Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of industrial engineers and managers. Includes instruction in optimization theory, human factors, organizational behavior...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Health and Medical Administrative Services
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Health and Medical Administrative Services, Other: Any instructional program in health and medical administrative services not listed in the Health and Medical Administrative Services, General category.

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

General Description for:
Bristol Community 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 typ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Fine Arts and Art Studies
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Fine Arts and Art Studies, Other: Any instructional program in fine arts and art studies not listed in the Fine Arts and Art Studies, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Other: Any instructional program in enterprise management and entrepreneurship not listed in the Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Education
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Education, Other: Any instructional program in education not listed in the Education, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Drafting and Design Technology + Technician
General
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Drafting and Design Technology + Technician, General: A program that prepares individuals to generally apply technical skills to create working drawings and computer simulations for a variety of applications. Includes instruction in specification interpretation, ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Culinary Arts + Chef Training
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Culinary Arts + Chef Training: A program that prepares individuals to provide professional chef and related cooking services in restaurants and other commercial food establishments. Includes instruction in recipe and menu planning, preparing and cooking of foods,...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications: A program that focuses on the design, implementation, and management of linked systems of computers, peripherals, and associated software to maximize efficiency and productivity, and that prepares individuals to ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Computer Programming
Specific Applications
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Computer Programming, Specific Applications: A program that prepares individuals to apply the knowledge and skills of general computer programming to the solution of specific operational problems and customization requirements presented by individual software user...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Computer Programming
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Computer Programming, Other: Any instructional program in computer programming not listed in the Computer Programming, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Computer + Information Technology Services Administration and Management
O
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Computer + Information Technology Services Administration and Management, O: Any instructional program in computer/information technology services administration and management not listed in the Computer/Information Technology Services Administration and Managemen...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Communications Technologies + Technicians And Support Services
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate 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.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Communication Disorders
General
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Communication Disorders, General: A program that focuses on the general study of the application of biomedical, psychological, and physical principles to the study of the genesis, development, and treatment of speech, language, hearing, and cognitive communication...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Commercial and Advertising Art
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Commercial and Advertising Art: A program in the applied visual arts that prepares individuals to use artistic techniques to effectively communicate ideas and information to business and consumer audiences via illustrations and other forms of digital or printed me...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Clinical + Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Clinical + Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions, Other: Any instructional program in clinical/medical laboratory science and allied professions not listed in the Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Aquaculture
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Aquaculture: A program that prepares individuals to select, culture, propagate, harvest, and market domesticated fish, shellfish, and marine plants, both freshwater and saltwater. Includes instruction in the basic principles of aquatic and marine biology; health ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Accounting Technology + Technician and Bookkeeping
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Less-than-1-year certificate 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, rec...

Associate degree
Social Work
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Social Work: A program that prepares individuals for the professional practice of social welfare administration and counseling, and that focus on the study of organized means of providing basic support services for vulnerable individuals and groups. Includes instruction in ...

Associate degree
Occupational Therapist Assistant
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community 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 educati...

Associate degree
Nursing + Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN).
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Nursing + Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN): A program that generally prepares individuals in the knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for sick, disabled, informed, or other individuals or groups. Includes instruction in the administra...

Associate degree
Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies: A program that is a structured combination of the arts, biological and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, emphasizing breadth of study. Includes instruction in independently designed, individualized, or regular pr...

Associate degree
Kindergarten + Preschool Education and Teaching
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Kindergarten + Preschool Education and Teaching: A program that prepares individuals to teach students in formal settings prior to beginning regular elementary school, usually ranging in age from three to six years (or grade one), depending on the school system or state regul...

Associate degree
Health Information + Medical Records Technology + Technician
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community 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,...

Associate degree
General Studies
Bristol Community College

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

Associate degree
Fire Science + Fire-fighting
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Fire Science + Fire-fighting: A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of fire fighters. Includes instruction in fire-fighting equipment operation and maintenance, principles of fire science and combustible substances, methods of controlling different types ...

Associate degree
Fine + Studio Arts
General
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Fine + Studio Arts, General: A program that prepares individuals to generally function as creative artists in the visual and plastic media. Includes instruction in the traditional fine arts media (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, CAD/CAM) and/or modern media (ceram...

Associate degree
Engineering
General
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Engineering, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to solve a wide variety of practical problems in industry, social organization, public works, and commerce.

Associate degree
Engineering Technologies + Technicians
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Engineering Technologies + Technicians, Other: Any instructional program in engineering technologies not listed in the Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General category.

Associate degree
Elementary Education and Teaching
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Elementary Education and Teaching: A program that prepares individuals to teach students in the elementary grades, which may include kindergarten through grade eight, depending on the school system or state regulations. Includes preparation to teach all elementary education ...

Associate degree
Dental Hygiene + Hygienist
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Dental Hygiene + Hygienist: A program that prepares individuals to clean teeth and apply preventive materials; provide oral health education and treatment counseling to patients; identify oral pathologies and injuries; and manage dental hygiene practices. Includes instructio...

Associate degree
Culinary Arts and Related Services
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Culinary Arts and Related Services, Other: Any instructional program in culinary arts and related services not listed in the Culinary Arts and Related Services, General category.

Associate degree
Criminal Justice + Safety Studies
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community 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...

Associate degree
Computer and Information Sciences
General
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Computer and Information Sciences, General: A general program that focuses on computing, computer science, and information science and systems as part of a broad and/or interdisciplinary program. Such programs are undifferentiated as to title and content and are not to be con...

Associate degree
Communication Studies + Speech Communication and Rhetoric
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Communication Studies + Speech Communication and Rhetoric: A program that focuses on the scientific, humanistic, and critical study of human communication in a variety of formats, media, and contexts. Includes instruction in the theory and practice of interpersonal, group, o...

Associate degree
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Communication Disorders Sciences and Services, Other: Any instructional program in communications disorders sciences and services not listed in the Communication Disorders Sciences and Services, General category.

Associate degree
Clinical + Medical Laboratory Technician
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Clinical + Medical Laboratory Technician: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of clinical laboratory scientists/medical technologists, to perform routine medical laboratory procedures and tests and to apply preset strategies to record and analyze data. ...

Associate degree
Child Care and Support Services Management
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree 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 and th...

Associate degree
Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services
Other
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services, Other: Any instructional program in administrative and secretarial services not listed in the Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services, General category.

Associate degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Business Administration and Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and behavior, ac...

Associate degree
Business + Commerce
General
Bristol Community College

General Description for:
Bristol Community College Associate degree Business + Commerce, General: A program that focuses on the general study of business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public and private ...

 
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