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  Reading Area Community College
10 S Second St
Reading, PA 19603-1706
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(610) 372-4721 Ext.
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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-2-year certificate, Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate, Associate degree
Carnegie classification: Associate's--Public Rural-serving Medium
Number of students: 4,492 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$ ----

Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$3,024$3,180$3,060
Out of State$6,858$7,380$7,140
Books and Supplies$1,200$1,100$1,000
On-Campus
Room and board------------
Other Expenses------------
Off Campus
Room and board$10,800$8,100$8,100
Other Expenses$4,500$3,000$3,000
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses$4,500$3,000$3,000

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) 31% $2,185
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 9% $612
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 4% $1,500
Loans to students 25% $5,075
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Respiratory Care Therapy + Therapist
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Respiratory Care Therapy + Therapist: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians, to assist in developing respiratory care plans, administer respiratory care procedures, supervise personnel and equipment operation, maintain recor...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Office Management and Supervision
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-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; bud...

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

General Description for:
Reading Area Community 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 administrato...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Machine Shop Technology + Assistant
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Machine Shop Technology + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to fabricate and modify metal parts in support of other manufacturing, repair or design activities, or as an independent business.

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Licensed Practical + Vocational Nurse Training (LPN, LVN, Cert, Dipl, AAS).
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Licensed Practical + Vocational Nurse Training (LPN, LVN, Cert, Dipl, AAS): A program that prepares individuals to assist in providing general nursing care under the direction of a registered nurse, physician or dentist. Includes instruction in taking patien...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Human Resources Management + Personnel Administration
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Human Resources Management + Personnel Administration, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to manage the development of human capital in organizations, and to provide related services to individuals and groups. Includes instruction in pers...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Techno.
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Techno: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, install, service and maintain the operating condition of heating, air conditioning, and refrige...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Heating + AC + Refrigeration Technology + Technician
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Heating + AC + Refrigeration Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers and other professionals engaged in developing and using air conditioning, refrigeratio...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Food Preparation + Professional Cooking + Kitchen Assistant
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Food Preparation + Professional Cooking + Kitchen Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to serve under the supervision of chefs and other food service professionals as kitchen support staff and commercial food preparation workers. Includes instructi...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Entrepreneurship + Entrepreneurial Studies
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Entrepreneurship + Entrepreneurial Studies: A program that generally prepares individuals to perform development, marketing and management functions associated with owning and operating a business.

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other: Any instructional program in computer and information sciences and support services not listed in the Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, General category.

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Business Administration and Management
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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 b...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Accounting Technology + Technician and Bookkeeping
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Less-than-2-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...

Associate degree
Tourism Promotion Operations
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Tourism Promotion Operations: A program that prepares individuals to perform marketing and sales operations connected with the promotion of tourism in public and private sector settings. Includes instruction in principles of marketing research and advertising, promotion...

Associate degree
Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations: A program that prepares individuals to provide direct retail services to hotel and motel clients and customers in a variety of settings. Includes instruction in the principles of hotel/motel operations, customer sales an...

Associate degree
Special Education and Teaching
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Special Education and Teaching, General: A general program that focuses on the design and provision of teaching and other educational services to children or adults with special learning needs or disabilities, and that may prepare individuals to function as special educa...

Associate degree
Social Work
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 instructio...

Associate degree
Small Business Administration + Management
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Small Business Administration + Management: A program that prepares individuals to develop and manage independent small businesses. Includes instruction in business administration; enterprise planning and entrepreneurship; start-up; small business operations and problem...

Associate degree
Science Technologies + Technicians
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Science Technologies + Technicians, Other: Any instructional program in science technologies not listed in the Science Technologies/Technicians, General category.

Associate degree
Retailing and Retail Operations
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Retailing and Retail Operations: A program that prepares individuals to perform operations associated with retail sales in a variety of settings. Includes instruction in over-the-counter and other direct sales operations in business settings, basic bookkeeping principle...

Associate degree
Respiratory Care Therapy + Therapist
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Respiratory Care Therapy + Therapist: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians, to assist in developing respiratory care plans, administer respiratory care procedures, supervise personnel and equipment operation, maintain records, and cons...

Associate degree
Pre-Pharmacy Studies
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Pre-Pharmacy Studies: A program that prepares individuals for admission to a first-professional program in pharmacy.

Associate degree
Pre-Law Studies
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Pre-Law Studies: A program that prepares individuals for the professional study of law at the post-baccalaureate level.

Associate degree
Operations Management and Supervision
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Operations Management and Supervision: A program that prepares individuals to manage and direct the physical and/or technical functions of a firm or organization, particularly those relating to development, production, and manufacturing. Includes instruction in principl...

Associate degree
Office Management and Supervision
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree 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; budgeting; sche...

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

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 admin...

Associate degree
Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions, Other: Any instructional program in mental and social health services and allied professions not listed in the Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions, General category.

Associate degree
Medical Radiologic Technology + Science - Radiation Therapist
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Medical Radiologic Technology + Science - Radiation Therapist: A program that prepares individuals to administer prescribed courses of radiation treatment, manage patients undergoing radiation therapy, and maintain pertinent records. Includes instruction in applied anat...

Associate degree
Medical Administrative + Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community 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 othe...

Associate degree
Mechanical Engineering + Mechanical Technology + Technician
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Mechanical Engineering + Mechanical Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers engaged in the design and development phases of a wide variety of projects involving mechan...

Associate degree
Mass Communication + Media Studies
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Mass Communication + Media Studies: A program that focuses on the analysis and criticism of media institutions and media texts, how people experience and understand media content, and the roles of media in producing and transforming culture. Includes instruction in comm...

Associate degree
Management Information Systems and Services
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Management Information Systems and Services, Other: Any program in business information and data processing services not listed in the Management Information Systems and Services, General category.

Associate degree
Machine Tool Technology + Machinist
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Machine Tool Technology + Machinist: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to plan, manufacture, assemble, test, and repair parts, mechanisms, machines, and structures in which materials are cast, formed, shaped, molded, heat treated...

Associate degree
Machine Shop Technology + Assistant
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Machine Shop Technology + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to fabricate and modify metal parts in support of other manufacturing, repair or design activities, or as an independent business.

Associate degree
Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 regul...

Associate degree
Legal Administrative Assistant + Secretary
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community 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 termi...

Associate degree
Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair and maintain industrial machinery and equipment such as cranes, pumps, engines and motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, production...

Associate degree
Humanities + Humanistic Studies
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Humanities + Humanistic Studies: A program that focuses on combined studies and research in the humanities subjects as distinguished from the social and physical sciences, emphasizing languages, literatures, art, music, philosophy and religion.

Associate degree
Human Resources Management + Personnel Administration
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Human Resources Management + Personnel Administration, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to manage the development of human capital in organizations, and to provide related services to individuals and groups. Includes instruction in personnel and or...

Associate degree
Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Techno.
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Techno: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, install, service and maintain the operating condition of heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration syste...

Associate degree
Heating + AC + Refrigeration Technology + Technician
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Heating + AC + Refrigeration Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers and other professionals engaged in developing and using air conditioning, refrigeration, and heati...

Associate degree
Health and Medical Administrative Services
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree 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.

Associate degree
General Studies
Reading Area Community College

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

Associate degree
Executive Assistant + Executive Secretary
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community 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...

Associate degree
Entrepreneurship + Entrepreneurial Studies
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Entrepreneurship + Entrepreneurial Studies: A program that generally prepares individuals to perform development, marketing and management functions associated with owning and operating a business.

Associate degree
Electrical
Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology + Technici
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology + Technici: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of electrical, electronics and communication engineers. Includes instruction in electri...

Associate degree
Electrical + Electronic Engineering Technologies + Technicians
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Electrical + Electronic Engineering Technologies + Technicians, Other: Any instructional program in electrical and electronic engineering-related technologies not listed in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General category.

Associate degree
Educational + Instructional Media Design
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Educational + Instructional Media Design: A program that focuses on the principles and techniques of creating instructional products and related educational resources in various formats or combinations such as film, video, recording, text, art, CD-ROM, computer software,...

Associate degree
Education
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Education, General: A program that focuses on the general theory and practice of learning and teaching; the basic principles of educational psychology; the art of teaching; the planning and administration of educational activities; school safety and health issues; and th...

Associate degree
Culinary Arts and Related Services
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 + Police Science
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Criminal Justice + Police Science: A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of police and public security officers, including patrol and investigative activities, traffic control, crowd control and public relations, witness interviewing, evidence collect...

Associate degree
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree 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 functio...

Associate degree
Computer Programming
Specific Applications
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree 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 users and o...

Associate degree
Computer Programming + Programmer
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Computer Programming + Programmer, General: A program that focuses on the general writing and implementation of generic and customized programs to drive operating systems and that generally prepares individuals to apply the methods and procedures of software design and p...

Associate degree
Computer and Information Sciences
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 b...

Associate degree
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
Other
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other: Any instructional program in computer and information sciences and support services not listed in the Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, General category.

Associate degree
Community Psychology
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Community Psychology: A program that prepares individuals to apply psychological principles to the analysis of social problems, and the implementation of intervention strategies for addressing these problems. Includes instruction in social ecology, primary and secondary...

Associate degree
Clinical + Medical Laboratory Technician
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 d...

Associate degree
Child Care and Support Services Management
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 a...

Associate degree
Chemistry
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Chemistry, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of the composition and behavior of matter, including its micro- and macro-structure, the processes of chemical change, and the theoretical description and laboratory simulation of these phenomena.

Associate degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area 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 behavio...

Associate degree
Biology + Biological Sciences
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Biology + Biological Sciences, General: A general program of biology at the introductory, basic level or a program in biology or the biological sciences that is undifferentiated as to title or content. Includes instruction in general biology and programs covering a vari...

Associate degree
Banking and Financial Support Services
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Banking and Financial Support Services: A program that prepares individuals to perform a wide variety of customer services in banks, insurance agencies, savings and loan companies, and related enterprises. Includes instruction in communications and public relations skil...

Associate degree
Anthropology
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Anthropology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human p...

Associate degree
Airline + Commercial + Professional Pilot and Flight Crew
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Airline + Commercial + Professional Pilot and Flight Crew: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to the flying and/or navigation of commercial passenger and cargo, agricultural, public service, corporate and rescue fixed wing aircraf...

Associate degree
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community 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,...

Associate degree
Accounting
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community College Associate degree Accounting: A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, ta...

Associate degree
Accounting Technology + Technician and Bookkeeping
Reading Area Community College

General Description for:
Reading Area Community 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-kee...

 
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