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  Riverland Community College
1900 8th Ave NW
Austin, MN 55912
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(507) 433-0600 Ext.
(507) 433-0511 Ext.
(507) 433-0517 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-2-year certificate, Associate degree, Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Carnegie classification: Associate's--Public Rural-serving Medium
Number of students: 3,606 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$20.00

About this School
Riverland Community College is a community college that is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. It has campuses in:
  • lbert Lea, Minnesota
  • ustin, Minnesota
    • t was opened in 1940 as the Austin Junior College by the public school system. It became part of the state system of junior colleges in 1964.
  • watonna, Minnesota.
 
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$4,896$4,736$4,384
Out of State$4,896$4,736$4,384
Books and Supplies$650$650$650
On-Campus
Room and board------------
Other Expenses------------
Off Campus
Room and board$5,550$5,550$5,550
Other Expenses$3,150$3,150$3,150
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses$3,150$3,150$3,150

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) 36% $2,633
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 44% $1,441
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 5% $647
Loans to students 52% $3,248
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Welding Technology + Welder
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Welding Technology + Welder: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to join or cut metal surfaces. Includes instruction in arc welding, resistance welding, brazing and soldering, cutting, high-energy beam welding and cutting...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Web Page
Digital + Multimedia and Information Resources Design
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Web Page, Digital + Multimedia and Information Resources Design: A program that prepares individuals to apply HTML, XML, Javascript, graphics applications, and other authoring tools to the design, editing, and publishing (launching) of documents, images, graphic...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Turf and Turfgrass Management
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Turf and Turfgrass Management: A program that focuses on turfgrasses and related groundcover plants and prepares individuals to develop ornamental or recreational grasses and related products; plant, transplant, and manage grassed areas; and to produce and store...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Truck and Bus Driver + Commercial Vehicle Operation
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Truck and Bus Driver + Commercial Vehicle Operation: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to drive trucks and buses, delivery vehicles, for-hire vehicles and other commercial vehicles. Includes instruction in operating gas...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Tool and Die Technology + Technician
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Tool and Die Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to operate machine tools used in the forming of metal components, as well as the fabrication of special tools, dies, jigs and fixtures used in cutti...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Receptionist
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Receptionist: A program that prepares individuals to perform frontline public relations duties for a business, organization, or answering service. Includes instruction in telephone answering techniques, responding to information requests, keeping caller and/or ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Printing Press Operator
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Printing Press Operator: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to set up, operate, and maintain printing presses.

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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 instructi...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Painting + Painter and Wall Coverer
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Painting + Painter and Wall Coverer: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to finish exterior and interior structural surfaces by applying protective or decorative coating materials, such as paint, lacquer, and wallpaper. I...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Medical Reception + Receptionist
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Medical Reception + Receptionist: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of office managers, nurses, or physicians, to provide customer service, visitor reception, and patient intake and discharge services. Includes instruction in medical of...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Management Information Systems
General
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Management Information Systems, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to provide and manage data systems and related facilities for processing and retrieving internal business information; select systems and train personnel; and respond to exter...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Machine Tool Technology + Machinist
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate 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, hea...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Human Resources Development
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Human Resources Development: A program that prepares individuals to apply integrated training, organizational development, and career planning and counseling skills to the design, management, and evaluation of programs to improve individual productivity, employa...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Health Unit Coordinator + Ward Clerk
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Health Unit Coordinator + Ward Clerk: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of nurses or ward supervisors, to perform routine administrative and reception duties in a patient care unit within a hospital or other health care facility. Includ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Engine Machinist
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Engine Machinist: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to the building and reconstruction of automotive and commercial vehicle engines. Includes instruction in cylinder head and block, crack repair, crankshaft inspection ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Digital Communication and Media + Multimedia
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Digital Communication and Media + Multimedia: A program that focuses on the development, use, and regulation of new electronic communication technologies using computer applications and that prepares individuals to function as developers and managers of digital ...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Data Modeling + Warehousing and Database Administration
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Data Modeling + Warehousing and Database Administration: A program that prepares individuals to design and manage the construction of databases and related software programs and applications, including the linking of individual data sets to create complex search...

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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 t...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Communications Systems Installation and Repair Technology
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Communications Systems Installation and Repair Technology: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to assemble, install, operate, maintain, and repair one- and two- way communications equipment and systems, including televisio...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Business Administration and Management
General
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-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 an...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Business + Office Automation + Technology + Data Entry
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-1-year certificate Business + Office Automation + Technology + Data Entry: A program that prepares individuals to support business information operations by using computer equipment to enter, process, and retrieve data for a wide variety of administrative purposes. Includes instr...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Web + Multimedia Management and Webmaster
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Web + Multimedia Management and Webmaster: A program that prepares individuals to develop and maintain web servers and the hosted web pages at one or a group of web sites, and to function as designated webmasters. Includes instruction in computer systems and ne...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Small Business Administration + Management
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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 an...

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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 administrators,...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Massage Therapy + Therapeutic Massage
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-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 ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Machine Tool Technology + Machinist
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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, hea...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Licensed Practical + Vocational Nurse Training
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Licensed Practical + Vocational Nurse Training: 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 patient vital signs, applying sterile...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Greenhouse Operations and Management
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Greenhouse Operations and Management: A program that prepares individuals to produce, store, and deliver plant species in controlled indoor environments for wholesale, commercial, research, or other purposes. Includes instruction in applicable principles of pla...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Engine Machinist
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Engine Machinist: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to the building and reconstruction of automotive and commercial vehicle engines. Includes instruction in cylinder head and block, crack repair, crankshaft inspection ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Cosmetology + Cosmetologist
General
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Cosmetology + Cosmetologist, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to cut, trim, and style scalp, facial, and body hair; apply cosmetic preparations; perform manicures and pedicures; massage the head and extremities; and prepare for practice as ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Corrections
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Corrections: A program that prepares individuals to study the theories and principles, of correctional science and to function as professional corrections officers and other workers in public and/or private incarceration facilities.

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Carpentry + Carpenter
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Carpentry + Carpenter: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to lay out, cut, fabricate, erect, install, and repair wooden structures and fixtures, using hand and power tools. Includes instruction in technical mathematics, ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Business + Office Automation + Technology + Data Entry
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Business + Office Automation + Technology + Data Entry: A program that prepares individuals to support business information operations by using computer equipment to enter, process, and retrieve data for a wide variety of administrative purposes. Includes instr...

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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 busi...

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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, r...

Associate degree
Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General.
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Associate degree Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General: A program that focuses on the general process and techniques of direct wholesale and retail buying and selling operations and introduces individuals to related careers. Includes instruction in the principles of entrep...

Associate degree
Radiologic Technology + Science - Radiographer
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Associate degree Radiologic Technology + Science - Radiographer: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians, to provide medical imaging services to patients and attending health care professionals. Includes instruction in applied anatomy and physiology, patien...

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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 administ...

Associate degree
Medical Administrative + Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland 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 other h...

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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 ...

Associate degree
Legal Administrative Assistant + Secretary
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland 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 terminol...

Associate degree
Human Services
General
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Associate degree Human Services, General: A program that focuses on the general study and provision of human and social services to individuals and communities and prepares individuals to work in public and private human services agencies and organizations. Includes instruction in the soci...

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

General Description for:
Riverland 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 electrical...

Associate degree
Diesel Mechanics Technology + Technician
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Associate degree Diesel Mechanics Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, service, and maintain diesel engines in vehicles such as automobiles, buses, ships, trucks, railroad locomotives, and construction equipment; as ...

Associate degree
Criminal Justice + Police Science
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland 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 collection...

Associate degree
Corrections
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Associate degree Corrections: A program that prepares individuals to study the theories and principles, of correctional science and to function as professional corrections officers and other workers in public and/or private incarceration facilities.

Associate degree
Computer Technology + Computer Systems Technology
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Associate degree Computer Technology + Computer Systems Technology: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of professionals who use computer systems. Includes instruction in basic computer design and architecture, programmi...

Associate degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland 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, ...

Associate degree
Business + Commerce
General
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland 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 privat...

Associate degree
Automobile + Automotive Mechanics Technology + Technician
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Associate degree Automobile + Automotive Mechanics Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, service, and maintain all types of automobiles. Includes instruction in brake systems, electrical systems, engine performance, ...

Associate degree
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland 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, wo...

Associate degree
Accounting
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland 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, tax a...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Machine Tool Technology + Machinist
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate 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, hea...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate 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, p...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Electrician
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate Electrician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to install, operate, maintain, and repair electric apparatus and systems such as residential, commercial, and industrial electric-power wiring; and DC and AC motors, control...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Electrical
Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology + Technici
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate 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 i...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Diesel Mechanics Technology + Technician
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate Diesel Mechanics Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, service, and maintain diesel engines in vehicles such as automobiles, buses, ships, trucks, railroad locomotives, and construction eq...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Automobile + Automotive Mechanics Technology + Technician
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate Automobile + Automotive Mechanics Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, service, and maintain all types of automobiles. Includes instruction in brake systems, electrical systems, engine p...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Autobody + Collision and Repair Technology + Technician
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate Autobody + Collision and Repair Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, reconstruct and finish automobile bodies, fenders, and external features. Includes instruction in structure analysis,...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Agricultural Mechanics and Equipment + Machine Technology
Riverland Community College

General Description for:
Riverland Community College Less-than-4-year certificate Agricultural Mechanics and Equipment + Machine Technology: A program that prepares individuals to maintain and repair specialized farm, ranch, and agribusiness power equipment and vehicles. Includes instruction in the principles of diesel, combustion, electrica...

 
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