Type Public Community President George Wasson Phone +1 314-984-7500 | Established 1972 Campus Suburban Number of students 12,000 | |
Motto "Expanding Minds. Changing Lives." Address 11333 Big Bend Rd, St. Louis, MO 63122, USA Undergraduate tuition and fees Local tuition: 2,250 USD (2010), Domestic tuition: 4,500 USD (2010) Notable alumni Rick Stream, Mary Jo Straatmann, Robert Crump, Daniel Stallman Similar St Louis Community College, St Louis Community College, St Louis Community College–Wildwood, University of Missouri, Jefferson College Profiles | ||
St. Louis Community College–Meramec (also known as STLCC-Meramec or Meramec) campus is located in the suburb of Kirkwood, MO. Meramec is the largest community college in Missouri with over 12,000 undergraduate and transfer students. Along with the 78-acre (31.6 ha) main campus in Kirkwood, Meramec operates one satellite campus in South St. Louis County - Meramec’s South County Education and University Center. The college is named after the Meramec River that meanders through central Missouri before emptying into the Mississippi River at the border between St. Louis and Jefferson Counties.
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History
St. Joseph College opened in 1889 on the site of the present day STLCC-Meramec campus The school was a small private Catholic college from 1889 until the early 1960s. When the college closed the land was redeveloped into the modern STLCC campus.
Notable programs
Meramec has many programs of study and offers a wide variety of associate degrees, some of the most popular being Business, Accounting, Music, Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Education. Meramec also has an extensive Horticulture program; the gardens and greenhouses can be seen on the southwestern part of campus from Big Bend Road. The student newspaper, the Montage, has won the MCMA-Missouri College Media Association's best two-year college newspaper in Missouri.
Meramec Athletics
STLCC operates as a single entity in athletic competition; Meramec students are permitted to participate if eligible.
Meramec serves as the "home field" for Men's Baseball, Women's Soccer, and Women's Softball.
Prior to STLCC consolidating all athletic programss under one banner, STLCC-Meramec participated under the name Magic.