Community College or 4-year University?

grad99
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 05:19:57 +0000

I used to work in administration at a few different Texas community colleges. While I wasn’t an adviser I did learn a thing or two.

1. Before you start at community college find out what the transfer requirements are for the college(s) you hope to transfer to. Some have restrictions regarding how many total/how many within your major/etc.

2. Make sure the specific classes you plan to take will transfer to the university and that it will transfer for something useful. For example, you don't want to take 12 hours at a community college only to find out that they will only accept 9 of those hours or that the 12 hours will only count as electives but you only really need 9 elective hours to graduate from the university.

3. You mentioned engineering. My husband is an engineer. I would recommend getting core classes that aren't math or science out of the way at the community college. Examples of those might be: government, history, English, foreign language, etc. Save the science and math requirements for the 4 year university. At the university my husband attended the information he learned in those classes required for his major often built on one another so if had taken the intro class somewhere else he might have missed something useful.