447 College Drive
Sylva, NC 28779

Whether you are starting or continuing your educational journey, Southwestern Community College (SCC) welcomes you. This community college offers nationally accredited programs, highly credentialed and recognized faculty and staff, and a demonstrated commitment to meet your educational needs. The people at Southwestern Community College want your experience to make a positive difference for you and for others.

The staff and faculty at SCC know our well-being as a society is dependent upon a knowledgeable and informed electorate, educated and skilled workforce, and a citizenry who values our freedoms and accepts the associated responsibilities. They want to give you the educational experience to make you a part of that citizenry.

Southwestern Community College was established in Sylva on Dec. 1, 1964 as the Jackson County Industrial Education Center, a satellite unit of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute. Since achieving independent status in the fall of 1967, the College (then known as Southwestern Technical Institute) has greatly expanded its educational and training services to the residents of Jackson, Macon and Swain counties.

Quick Facts:

Southwestern Community College is one of 59 institutions operating in the North Carolina Community College System, a statewide organization of public, two-year, postsecondary educational institutions.

Southwestern Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associate's Degrees.

SCC offers 68 programs for students ranging from Associate's Degrees, to diplomas, to certificates.

There are roughly 11 students per class at Southwestern Community College, and the enrollment is split almost down the middle between full-time and part-time students.

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