Prince George's Community College
Active In Achieving the Dream:
2011 - present
“Increasing completion and graduation rates is a major focus for the college, and partnering with other Achieving the Dream institutions to share best practices is another powerful step forward in achieving this goal.”–Charlene M. Dukes, President, Prince George’s Community College
Who We Are
Welcome to Prince George's Community College Prince George’s Community College is the number one choice of Prince George’s County residents for an undergraduate education and the leading institution in training and preparing employees for the county’s workforce. Among Prince George’s County high school graduates who go on to college, 50 percent choose to attend Prince George’s Community College. Since 1958, the college has provided students, the county, and region with high quality and affordable education, cutting-edge workforce and development training and the opportunity to achieve their dreams and aspirations. Prince George’s Community College serves a diverse population of more than 40,000 students who represent 103 countries throughout the world. The college offers more than 200 academic and workforce development and continuing education programs of study, and transfer and scholarship opportunities to four-year colleges and universities. Students can earn associate degrees, certificates, letters of recognition, and licensures.
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College Characteristics
- IPEDS UNITID: 163657
- HBCU: No
- Tribal: No
- Degree of Urbanization: Suburb: Large
- Geographic Region: Mid East (DE DC MD NJ NY PA)
- Institution Size Category: 10,000 - 19,999
- Carnegie Classification: Associate's--Public Suburban-serving Single Campus
- Total Enrollment: 13,824
- Full-time Enrollment: 4,059
- Part-time Enrollment: 9,765
- First-time Degree Seeking: 2,404
- Part-time First-time Degree Seeking: 1,387
- Black or African American Grouping: More than 40% Black
- Hispanic/Latino Grouping: 0 to 12.5% Hispanic/Latino
- Pell Recipients Grouping: 20.1 to 40% Pell Recipients
Percent of total enrollment that are...
- American Indian or Alaska Native: 0%
- Asian: 3%
- Black or African American: 75%
- White: 5%
- Hispanic/Latino: 7%
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 0%
- Women: 63%
- Two or more races: 2%
- Race/ethnicity unknown: 5%
- Pell Recipients : 39%
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