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Wake Tech is North Carolina’s largest community college, serving approximately 72,000 adults annually, with seven campuses, two training centers, multiple community sites and a comprehensive array of online learning options. Wake Tech is accredited and offers more than 250 associate degree, diploma and certificate programs that prepare students for university transfer or immediate employment. The college also offers short-term, non-degree programs in IT, health care, hospitality, public safety, skilled trades and more. Non-degree programs include small business support, customized corporate training and basic skills courses such as English as a Second Language and high school equivalency preparation. Wake Tech also serves high school students at the Wake Early College of Health and Sciences, the Wake Early College of Information and Biotechnologies, Vernon Malone College and Career Academy and North Wake College and Career Academy, in partnership with the Wake County Public School System.

Welcome to CCBC. Come see what you can be! For more than six decades, CCBC has enabled individuals to earn degrees, build careers and improve their lives with high-quality, accessible and affordable education. CCBC offers the region’s most expansive selection of degree, certificate and workplace certification programs that prepare students for transfer, job entry and career advancement in local job growth industries such as business, education, health care, information technology, cybersecurity, construction and transportation. Each year, nearly 63,000 students enroll at the college’s main campuses, extension centers and online, while some 3 million enjoy the college’s performing arts, galleries, planetarium and athletic facilities. CCBC graduates take advantage of tremendous tuition savings and guaranteed transfer to University of Maryland system schools, while graduates of the CCBC Honors program move on to many of the nation’s most selective colleges and universities, often on scholarship. CCBC is nationally recognized as a leader in innovative learning strategies, including culturally responsive teaching, is among the nation’s top associate degree producers, and is designated as a Military Times "Best for Vets" College. Now, thanks to expanded eligibility for the Baltimore County College Promise scholarship, even more 2015-2019 high school graduates, GED recipients and external diploma degree graduates are able to attend CCBC full time without the cost of tuition and fees. To find out more visit ccbcmd.edu/collegepromise.

For more than 60 years, Durham Technical Community College has provided high-quality, affordable, and convenient technical and career education. With articulation agreements with many four-year schools, Durham Tech is a springboard to a bachelor’s degree. Tens of thousands of Triangle residents have come to Durham Tech for its wide array of continuing education offerings; many thousands more have come here for a second chance at success through adult literacy programs. Durham Tech serves the citizens of Durham and Orange counties at its Durham, Hillsborough and Chapel Hill locations.