Kingsborough Community College

 
2001 Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn, NY 11235-2398

Students looking for a top-notch education in an unsurpassed setting look to Kingsborough Community College. Kingsborough Community College is located on a 70-acre campus in Manhattan Beach, on the southern tip of Brooklyn, New York. Three bodies of water -- Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean -- make for a breathtaking background to the Kingsborough Community College Campus. Kingsborough Community College serves approximately 30,000 students annually, offering a vast array of credit and non-credit courses in the liberal arts and career education, as well as a number of specialized programs.

Kingsborough Community College is a comprehensive community college, focusing on the needs of the diverse student population. Kingsborough Community College is an open-access institution of higher learning, accepting all students with a high school diploma or GED. Kingsborough Community College offers a wide range of educational opportunities -- preparation for transfer to a four-year college or university, career development, general education, adult and continuing education -- to allow students to reach their goals.

Kingsborough Community College has a vision that focuses on student learning and bases its decision-making around one central question: How do our individual and collective actions contribute to student learning? Because of Kingsborough Community College's commitment to student learning, students are able to achieve success. Kingsborough Community College ranks in the top 5 percent of community colleges nationwide in awarding associate degrees to students who wish to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. Additionally, Kingsborough Community College ranks in the top 3 percent of community colleges in the country in associate degrees awarded to minority students. With over 20,000 credit students and an additional 15,000 continuing education students attending Kingsborough Community College on an annual basis, countless lives are being changed at Kingsborough each year.

Quick Facts:

Over the past 40 years, more than half a million students have been served by Kingsborough Community College.

The top two reasons students attend Kingsborough Community College are to prepare for transfer to four-year colleges or universities and to prepare for jobs or career advancements.

50% of Kingsborough Community College students attend full-time and 50% attend part-time.

60% of Kingsborough Community College students are female.

Kingsborough Community College students speak 68 different languages and come from 110 different countries.