If you are interested in taking a peak into what Butler County Community College has to offer, you can do so at an open house planned for Wednesday where you will be able to find college degree and career guidance.
The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. inside Founders Hall on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. The school will waive its $25 application fee for those who apply for admission during the open house.
Information sessions will be held in Succop Theater at 5 p.m. on BC3’s healthcare programs and at 6:30 p.m. on financial aid and scholarships.
Eighty percent of BC3 students receive grants and scholarships to help them pay for their education. The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard data also show that BC3’s tuition is more affordable than that of 42 other regional colleges and universities. Pennsylvania college students owe an average of $36,193 in student-loan debt, the highest in the nation, LendEdu reported Aug. 8.
Seventy-five percent of BC3 graduates are debt-free.
BC3 offers 56 two-year career and transfer programs and 21 certificate and workplace certificate programs in business, humanities and social science, nursing and allied health and in STEM. Public, private and online four-year colleges and universities recognize BC3 credits. Students who complete an associate degree at BC3 in one of 12 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education programs can transfer to any state system institution with junior standing. Representatives from BC3’s most popular transfer destinations will be in attendance at the April 3 open house.
Students can complete bachelor’s degree programs on BC3’s main campus with La Roche College in information technology and in psychology, and with Clarion University of Pennsylvania in accounting. Courses are taught in face-to-face classes, online or through interactive video – in which an instructor’s classroom lesson is delivered to separate sites simultaneously using various technology
Traditional and nontraditional students can capitalize on BC3’s 14- and 10-week sessions, and its five-week Fast Tracks, held consecutively throughout the semester and in which students can take three-credit courses that are among the college’s more than 100 fully-online classes.
Students in their sophomore or junior years of high school can also learn at BC3’s open house how to enroll in a college-level classes and earn transferrable credits through BC3’s College Pathways and College Within the High School programs.
Visitors can RSVP to the open house at bc3.edu/open-houses.