Northern Essex Community College

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Active In Achieving the Dream:

2007 - present

Leader College:

2011 - present
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“Our efforts toward improving student outcomes, both course retention and graduation rates, are already showing results; Achieving the Dream has helped us make these college-wide priorities.”
–Dr. Lane A. Glenn, President, Northern Essex Community College

Who We Are

Northern Essex Community College (NECC) is proud of the quality of education and services we offer to our students. We have over 15,000 individuals who can study full- or part-time. We have a teaching faculty who concentrates their educational, life experiences and efforts in the classroom. The skills needed when your education is completed to transfer successfully to baccalaureate programs, or become a part of the highly skilled business, industrial and professional work force for which New England is famous. You will be able to study at Northern Essex at an extremely low cost. Part-time study is comparably inexpensive. A number of financial aid sources are available to eligible students and we are committed to helping you find a way to afford Northern Essex. NECC is a public, two-year college that offers comprehensive academic programs of study leading to the Associate in Arts degree, the Associate in Science degree and Certificates of program completion.

What We Are Doing

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College Characteristics

  • IPEDS UNITID: 167376
  • HBCU: No
  • Tribal: No
  • Degree of Urbanization: Suburb: Large
  • Geographic Region: New England (CT ME MA NH RI VT)
  • Institution Size Category: 5,000 - 9,999
  • Carnegie Classification: Associate's--Public Suburban-serving Multicampus
  • Total Enrollment: 7,312
  • Full-time Enrollment: 2,596
  • Part-time Enrollment: 4,716
  • First-time Degree Seeking: 1,441
  • Part-time First-time Degree Seeking: 606
  • Black or African American Grouping: 0 to 20% Black
  • Hispanic/Latino Grouping: More than 25% Hispanic/Latino
  • Pell Recipients Grouping: More than 60% Pell Recipients

Percent of total enrollment that are...

  • American Indian or Alaska Native: 0%
  • Asian: 2%
  • Black or African American: 4%
  • White: 57%
  • Hispanic/Latino: 34%
  • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 1%
  • Women: 62%
  • Two or more races: 1%
  • Race/ethnicity unknown: 3%
  • Pell Recipients : 65%

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