Big Sandy Community and Technical College

With its headquarters located in Prestonsburg inPrograms Offered
Kentucky, United States, Big Sandy Community andOver 40 different programs are offered by the
Technical College is one of sixteen 2-year opentechnical college for its students. Most of the programs
admission colleges under the Kentucky Communityare affordable and also provides flexibility and options
and Technical College System or KCTCS. Its primaryincluding the facilities of distance learning using online
service area includes Floyd, Johnson, Martin, Magoffin,education. Students can earn any of over 75
and Pike Counties.credentials offered by the college basing on their
Campus Featuresrequirements and budget. Its associate degrees work
Created in the year 2003 in result of consolidation ofas the stepping stone for migrating to higher degrees
two colleges namely, the Prestonsburg Communityin colleges and universities. In addition the college offers
College and the Mayo Technical College, BSCTC hasboth full time and part time courses basing on the
as many as four campus locations. These areneeds of the students. For further details one can log
Prestonsburg, Mayo in Paintsville, Pikeville, and theon to the Academics page of the college website.
Hager Hill campuses. College management have planAdmission
to open Midway College School of Pharmacy in MayProviding the facilities of open admission for the
Campus in Paintsville by 2011. BSCTC has manystudents the college requires the students to provide
feeder schools. Johnson, Pike, Shelby Valley, Phelps,high school diploma or GED test scores, ACT or
and Allen are the top five among them.COMPASS scores, and official transcript from all the
Brief Historypost-secondary institutions attended. A student should
In the year 2003 the college was established with thebe above 16 years of age to qualify. Details of
basic objective of preparing the students for transferadmission and application processes are available on
to the four year colleges in Kentucky or for immediatethe college website.
entrance. With student strength of over 4000 andFinancial Aid
imparting education in 40 programs at four campuses,Usual financial aids like the Federal and State Grants,
it figures prominently in college directory of Kentuckyscholarships, loans, and institutional grants are available
State and United States.for eligible students. Nearly 74% of the students are
Accreditationavailing some form of Federal Grants while 16% are
Big Sandy Community and Technical College issupported with State Grants. For details one can visit
accredited by Southern Association of Colleges andthe Financial Aid page of the college website.
Schools or SACS.