WSU Tech Competitors

Lakeshore Technical College (LTC) is a leading provider of technical education offering 100 career programs including associate degrees, technical diplomas, technical certificates, and apprenticeship programs. In addition, LTC offers distance learning, customized training to business and industry, and continuing education opportunities.

Big Bend Community College was founded in 1962 and serves a 4,600-square-mile service district, including all of Grant and Adams counties and a portion of Lincoln County. The campus is on 154 acres adjacent to Grant County International Airport north of Moses Lake. The service district population of 110,000 lives in 15 primary communities. The college has an FTE enrollment of 2,100 and an annual student headcount of 4,000. Big Bend Community College is a comprehensive community college with programs for academic transfer, professional/technical, developmental education, and a bachelor’s degree. More than 70% of Big Bend's students receive need-based financial aid. The college is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and is a Hispanic Serving Institution as defined by Title V.

Founded in 1915 as an orphanage in the District of Columbia, NCCF is a private, nonprofit child and family welfare agency with a commitment to serving poor, disadvantaged, abused, neglected and/or abandoned children, youth, and their families. Current program services include emergency shelters and transitional housing for homeless families, a high-intensity therapeutic group home, therapeutic and traditional foster care and adoption, independent living for youth transitioning to adulthood, teen parent services, and community-based prevention services that promote academic achievement, parental involvement, economic and vocational stability, and healthy families. Our programs have become social service models, redefining both NCCF’s reputation and the agency’s position in the human service continuum in the Washington Metropolitan Region.