CALHOUN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Your Community.  Your College.  Your Future.

For over 60 years, Calhoun Community College has served the community, providing educational and training opportunities across north Alabama.

Who We Are:

• With over 12,300 credit students during the 2009 Fall Semester, Calhoun remains Alabama’s largest two-year college and the 6th largest higher education institution (two-year and four-year) in the state (behind Auburn University, the University of Alabama, Troy State, the University of Alabama – Birmingham and the University of South Alabama).
• Calhoun is preparing tomorrow’s engineers. Over 450 Calhoun students have declared majors in Pre-engineering, Science or Mathematics.
• Over 600 nursing students enrolled this academic year (the largest class of nursing students in the history of the College).
• The College has had record enrollments for the last five semesters.
• Data from major state universities in Alabama verify that transfer students from Calhoun perform as well or better than students who begin their college careers at the respective universities.
• According to a report from the Alabama Community College System, Calhoun’s economic impact to the community and state is substantial:  local economic impact:  $183,056,247; statewide economic impact:  $221,821,099.  Calhoun’s statewide return on $1 investment (ROI) is $11.56, the highest among all of the state’s two-year colleges.
• Calhoun is the region’s community college:  “Calhoun demonstrates that economic development needs to be a regional affair – Calhoun gives us a tremendous advantage.”  Congressman Bud Cramer, October 2008
• Over the last few years, the College had close to $23 million in active Federal, state and local grant awards, including over $11 million from the Department of Labor funding the WIRED/VIA initiative, the Center for Manufacturing Innovation, and Project AHEAD (a program offering alternative training options in the healthcare field).
• Calhoun receives the lowest per-student appropriation from the state of Alabama at approximately $4,100 per full-time equivalent student.  The state average is approximately $5,200 per full-time equivalent student.
• According to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE), Calhoun draws the majority of its students (over 4,600) from Madison County and the next largest (about 2,000) from Morgan County.  The College draws students from 32 different counties in Alabama.
• ACHE data indicates that of the students from this area who attended public college in Fall 2007, 33% of those from Madison County, 56% of those from Limestone County, 44% of those from Morgan County and 29% of those from Lawrence County chose to attend Calhoun.  This data clearly indicates that Calhoun is the "college of choice" for many students.
• Calhoun’s Huntsville/Cummings Research Park campus is the only two-year college campus located in a major research park.
• Calhoun has the state’s first and only associate’s degree program in Biotechnology, which began Fall 2007 in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.
• The College provides workforce development training to over 100 businesses and more than 6,000 individuals each year.
• Seven Calhoun students have been recognized among the nation’s top two-year college students.
• Accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associate Degrees and Certificates.
• Sigma Kappa Delta National English Honor Society national headquarters
• LPN (Licensed Practical Nursing) Program observed 50th Anniversary in 2003, making it one of Calhoun's oldest programs. The program is the first National League for Nursing accredited program in the state of Alabama.
• Cable television station, 4CTV, in partnership with Charter Communications, located on Decatur campus