Collin County Community College District (Collin College)
Updated December 2007
- Collin College was founded in 1985.
- Collin College is comprised of:
- CCCCD@Allen - 300 Rivercrest Blvd., Allen
- Central Park Campus - 2200 W. University Drive, McKinney
- Courtyard Center for Professional and Economic Development - 4800 Preston Park Blvd., Plano
- Preston Ridge Campus - 9700 Wade Blvd., Frisco
- Spring Creek Campus - 2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway, Plano
- Rockwall Center for Higher Education - 1050 Williams St., Rockwall
- Collin College serves about 44,000 credit and continuing education students annually.
- Collin County Community College District is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees and certificates.
- Collin College's mascot is the Cougar.
- The school colors are blue and black.
- Offers associate of arts, science and applied science degrees, associate of arts in teaching, certificates and marketable skills achievement awards.
- Employee breakdown:
- full-time faculty - 274
- associate faculty - 666
- continuing education faculty - 135
- staff and administrators - 527
- Collin College's faculty include two U.S. Professors of the Year, a Texas Professor of the Year and four Minnie Stevens Piper Professors.
- About 80 percent of Collin College students intend to transfer to a university.
- In 2000, the college processed $2.4 million in financial aid and scholarships and in 2007 that number topped $16.5 million.
- Collin College's student- to full-time faculty ratio is 19.5:1.
- The top 10 universities Collin College students transfer to are:
- The University of Texas at Dallas
- University of North Texas
- Texas A&M University
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Texas Tech University
- Texas A&M University-Commerce
- Baylor University
- Texas Woman's University
- Southern Methodist University
- Texas State University
- The following is the number of 2007 high school graduates that enrolled at Collin College the following fall:
- Plano ISD - 808 students
- Allen ISD - 371 students
- McKinney ISD - 261 students
- Frisco ISD - 286 students