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  Western Nevada Community College
2201 West College Parkway
Carson City, NV 897037399
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(775) 445-3000 Ext.
(775) 445-3264 Ext.
(775) 445-3277 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-2-year certificate, Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate, Associate degree
Carnegie classification: Associate's--Public Rural-serving Medium
Number of students: 5,003 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$15.00

Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$1,763$1,695$1,642
Out of State$7,148$6,657$6,557
Books and Supplies$1,100$1,100$1,000
On-Campus
Room and board------------
Other Expenses------------
Off Campus
Room and board$8,550$8,500$8,500
Other Expenses$2,400$2,400$2,400
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses$2,400$2,400$2,400

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% $2,342
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 52% $1,005
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 19% $1,292
Loans to students 8% $3,324
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Welding Technology + Welder
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-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 cu...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Surgical Technology + Technologist
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Surgical Technology + Technologist: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and surgical nurses, to maintain, monitor, and enforce the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by preoperative, surgical team, and post...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Prepress + Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-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 inst...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Parks
Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Parks, Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management: A program that prepares individuals to develop and manage park facilities and other indoor and outdoor recreation and leisure facilities. Includes instruction in supervising support personnel, health and...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Medical Office Management + Administration
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-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, personn...

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

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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...

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

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 pati...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Legal Assistant + Paralegal
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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, drafti...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Drafting and Design Technology + Technician
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-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 interpret...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Dental Laboratory Technology + Technician
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Dental Laboratory Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of dentists, to design and construct dental prostheses such as caps, crowns, bridges, dentures, splints, and orthodontic appliances. Includes instruction ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Data Processing and Data Processing Technology + Technician
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Data Processing and Data Processing Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to master and use computer software programs and applications for inputting, verifying, organizing, storing, retrieving, transforming (changing, updating, and d...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Criminal Justice + Police Science
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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, ev...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Corrections
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-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 individu...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Computer and Information Sciences
General
Western Nevada Community College

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

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Commercial and Advertising Art
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-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 pri...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Child Care Provider + Assistant
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate Child Care Provider + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to be primary providers of home, family, residential, or institutional-based child care services. Includes instruction in child growth and development; nutrition; recreation; planning an...

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

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Business + Commerce
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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 ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
American Sign Language (ASL)
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate American Sign Language (ASL): A program that focuses on American Sign Language as a visual and motor medium of communication and discourse for deaf individuals and deaf culture. Includes instruction in the development of ASL, ASL morphology and syntax, sig...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Accounting
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Less-than-2-year certificate 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, budg...

Associate degree
Welding Technology + Welder
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree 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, solid...

Associate degree
Science Technologies + Technicians
Other
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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
Real Estate
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Real Estate: A program that prepares individuals to develop, buy, sell, appraise, and manage real property. Includes instruction in land use development policy, real estate law, real estate marketing procedures, agency management, brokerage, property inspection and ap...

Associate degree
Physics
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Physics, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of matter and energy, and the formulation and testing of the laws governing the behavior of the matter-energy continuum. Includes instruction in classical and modern physics, electricity and magn...

Associate degree
Physical Sciences
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Physical Sciences: A program that focuses on the major topics, concepts, processes, and interrelationships of physical phenomena as studied in any combination of physical science disciplines.

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

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 adm...

Associate degree
Mathematics
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Mathematics, General: A general program that focuses on the analysis of quantities, magnitudes, forms, and their relationships, using symbolic logic and language. Includes instruction in algebra, calculus, functional analysis, geometry, number theory, logic, topology ...

Associate degree
Machine Tool Technology + Machinist
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 treat...

Associate degree
Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 reg...

Associate degree
Legal Assistant + Paralegal
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community 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 doc...

Associate degree
Ground Transportation
Other
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Ground Transportation, Other: Any instructional program in vehicle and equipment operation not listed in the Ground Transportation, General category.

Associate degree
General Studies
Western Nevada Community College

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

Associate degree
General Office Occupations and Clerical Services
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree 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, ...

Associate degree
Fire Protection and Safety Technology + Technician
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Fire Protection and Safety Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply a knowledge of fire prevention and control skills to problems of reducing fire risk, loss limitation, supervising substance removal, conducting fire investigations, and adv...

Associate degree
Environmental Science
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Environmental Science: A program that focuses on the application of biological, chemical, and physical principles to the study of the physical environment and the solution of environmental problems, including subjects such as abating or controlling environmental pollut...

Associate degree
Engineering
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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
Electrical
Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology + Technici
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 elect...

Associate degree
Drafting and Design Technology + Technician
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree 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, dimen...

Associate degree
Criminal Justice + Safety Studies
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 organizati...

Associate degree
Criminal Justice + Police Science
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 colle...

Associate degree
Corrections
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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
Corrections and Criminal Justice
Other
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Corrections and Criminal Justice, Other: Any instructional program in corrections and criminal justice not listed in the Corrections and Criminal Justice, General category.

Associate degree
Computer Programming + Programmer
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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...

Associate degree
Computer and Information Sciences
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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...

Associate degree
Commercial and Advertising Art
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree 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 media. ...

Associate degree
Child Care Provider + Assistant
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Child Care Provider + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals to be primary providers of home, family, residential, or institutional-based child care services. Includes instruction in child growth and development; nutrition; recreation; planning and supervisio...

Associate degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 behav...

Associate degree
Business + Commerce
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 p...

Associate degree
Building + Construction Finishing, Management, And Inspection, Other.
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Building + Construction Finishing, Management, And Inspection, Other: Any instructional program in building/construction finishing, management, and inspection not listed in the Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection, General category.

Associate degree
Biology + Biological Sciences
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 va...

Associate degree
Automobile + Automotive Mechanics Technology + Technician
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 performa...

Associate degree
Architectural Drafting and Architectural CAD + CADD
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada Community College Associate degree Architectural Drafting and Architectural CAD + CADD: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to develop working drawings and electronic simulations for architectural and related construction projects. Includes instruction in basic c...

Associate degree
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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 la...

Associate degree
Accounting
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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, ...

Associate degree
Accounting Technology + Technician and Bookkeeping
Western Nevada Community College

General Description for:
Western Nevada 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-k...

 
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