University Students Turn to AC
Amarillo College, like most community colleges these days, is serving a growing number of students whose transcripts contain university credit hours. Some already have baccalaureate or master’s degrees. This semester alone, AC has 1,309 academic students whose applications for admission show they previously attended a four-year school for some length of time.
Students who leave four-year schools to attend community college are known as “reverse transfers.” They are motivated by, among other things, the abundance of career-oriented programs available at a school like AC and, naturally, by the state of the economy. After all, tuition and fees at Amarillo College are about one-third the cost of tuition and fees at a public university in Texas.
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