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President
  
Dr. Christal Albrecht

Website
  
www.alvincollege.edu

Mascot
  
Dolphin

Phone
  
+1 281-756-3500

Colors
  
Black, Red

Students
  
5,293

Type
  
2 years

Total enrollment
  
5,794 (2010)

Founded
  
1948

Alvin Community College

Established
  
1948 (as Alvin Junior College)

Dean
  
Dr. Cynthia Griffith, Vice President of Instruction

Location
  
Alvin, Texas, United States

Address
  
3110 Mustang Rd, Alvin, TX 77511, USA

Notable alumni
  
Nolan Ryan, Randy Weber, Mike Stanton

Similar
  
San Jacinto College, College of the Mainland, Brazosport College, Wharton County Junior Co, Lee College

Profiles

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Alvin Community College (ACC) is a community college in Brazoria County in the U.S. state of Texas. Alvin Community College provides educational opportunities in workforce training, academics, technical fields, adult basic education, and personal development.

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As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of ACC is the following:

  • all territory within the Alvin, Danbury, and Pearland school districts, and
  • that portion of the Angleton Independent School District annexed by ACC prior to September 1, 1995.
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    Academics

    Alvin Community College offers a wide variety of career programs and majors that lead directly to the job market. ACC offers degrees in Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Associate of Arts (AA) and Associate of Science (AS), as well as many certificate programs. ACC participates in the Texas Common Course Numbering System, or TCCNS, a voluntary cooperative effort by many Texas colleges and universities to create a standard set of course designations for transfer students at the freshman and sophomore level. This allows students to take classes which will transfer to a university. ACC Department of Continuing Education and Workforce Development also offers a variety of programs that allow students to further or begin new careers in a number of fields including health care, professional services, industrial arts and more.

    Campuses

    ACC's main campus is located at 3110 Mustang Road in Alvin. In addition, a museum devoted to the baseball career of Alvin's most famous resident, Nolan Ryan, is located on the ACC main campus. Ryan studied at ACC, then known as Alvin Junior College, during a few off-seasons early in his career.

    ACC opened a Pearland College Center in 1998 and offered college courses at this location for 15 years. In the spring of 2013, ACC officials announced that the Pearland College Center would close by June and that the center would be sold. The move was prompted by decreasing enrollment figures at the center and by new agreements that had been established with Turner College and Career High School in Pearland Independent School District.

    Notable alumni

  • Randy Weber, member of the United States Congress.
  • References

    Alvin Community College Wikipedia