Registration Open for City Colleges of Chicago Summer and Fall 2015 Terms
Nikole Muzzy
Published: May 29, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nikole Muzzy
May 19, 2015 (312) 553-2788 (Office) nmuzzy@ccc.edu
Registration Open for City Colleges of Chicago Summer and Fall 2015 Terms Summer session begins June 3; register for Fall 2015 courses by August 17
CHICAGO – Chicagoans who want a quality, affordable education to prepare for further college or career can register now for the Summer and Fall 2015 semesters at City Colleges of Chicago, the largest community college system in Illinois. City Colleges offers a variety of educational options from certificate and associate degree programs to English as a Second Language and GED high school equivalency instruction.
City Colleges prepares students for the more than 500,000 jobs coming to the Chicago region in fast-growing fields through its College to Careers programs in healthcare, business and professional services, advanced manufacturing, information technology, culinary and hospitality, construction, education, human and natural sciences, and transportation, distribution and logistics.
By starting at a community college and completing an associate degree, students can save thousands of dollars toward a bachelor’s degree. Because many City Colleges courses are transferable to four-year colleges and universities, four-year college students home in Chicago for the summer can save by taking summer courses at City Colleges and transferring the credit back to their home university.
City Colleges of Chicago offers programs to meet the needs of all students, including:
- Associate of arts (A.A.) and associate of science (A.S.) degrees that transfer to four-year colleges and universities.
- Associate of applied science degrees (A.A.S.) and certificates that prepare students to immediately enter the workforce in high-demand careers.
- Degree programs range from nursing to culinary arts, from biology to computer science.
- Certificate programs include accounting, welding, supply chain management and more.
- Free GED (high school equivalency) courses and free English as a Second Language courses. These adult education classes are conveniently offered at 70 neighborhood-based off-site instruction locations around the city. They are scheduled on evenings and weekends, and are also online.
Student can register for courses today. Summer classes begin June 3, 2015. New students can apply to City Colleges by visiting the admissions page. Schedules for Summer and Fall 2015 courses at all seven City Colleges campuses can be found here.
About City Colleges of Chicago
City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation with 5,700 faculty and staff serving 115,000 students annually at seven colleges and six satellite sites. The seven colleges include: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College. City Colleges also oversees: the award-winning Washburne Culinary Institute, the French Pastry School, the Parrot Cage Restaurant at South Shore Cultural Center, the Sikia Banquet Facility, five Child Development Centers, the Workforce Academy, the public broadcast station WYCC TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC FM 89.3.
Under the leadership of Chancellor Cheryl Hyman, the City Colleges of Chicago is in the midst of a Reinvention, a collaborative effort to review and revise CCC programs and practices to ensure students leave CCC college-ready, career-ready and prepared to pursue their life's goals. Since the launch of Reinvention, City Colleges has awarded the highest number of degrees in its history and doubled the graduation rate. ###