Community College Education

A program that focuses on the principles and techniques of administering community and junior colleges and related postsecondary systems, the study of community and junior colleges as objects of applied research, and that may prepare individuals to function as administrators in such settings. Includes instruction in community and junior college finance; policy and planning studies; curriculum; faculty and labor relations; higher education law; student services; research on community and junior colleges; institutional research; marketing and promotion; and issues of evaluation, accountability and philosophy.

While Community College Education has degrees up to the Doctors degree research scholarship, the majority of students earn a Doctors degree research scholarship. Students study Community College Education all over the country, though the major at the Postbaccalaureate certificate level has the most graduates in Virginia. The average starting salary for an undergraduate degree in Community College Education is $37,307.