St Louis community college- Forest Park
5600 Oakland Ave.

St. Louis, Missouri

Forest Park, the district's city campus, is Missouri's leading provider of health technology training, offering 18 medical programs ranging from Funeral Services and Diagnostic Medical Sonography to Dental Hygiene, Nursing and Respiratory Therapy. They also offer a hospitality training programs. Associate degrees are available.

Established in 1962, St. Louis Community College is the largest community college district in Missouri and one of the largest in the United States. STLCC offers 11 college transfer options and more than 90 career programs, as well as a changing variety of continuing education courses and programs for community members. Associate degrees are available in the areas of art and design, business, civil and community service, engineering and technology, health and office professions; plus continuing education, developmental, and business/industrial training programs. It operates four campuses and three college centers. Programs and courses at St. Louis Community College are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

The metropolitan campus focuses on a curriculum that incorporates global education due to the campuses more than 700 international students from 70 countries, speaking more than 80 languages. The campus is affiliated with the Harrison Education Center in North St. Louis, which offers credit and non-credit courses and contractual training.

Forest Park offers career prep in the high-tech field of advanced computer networking through the certified Cisco Academy, Center of Excellence, Advanced Network Training Center. With its close proximity to major health centers, the campus has the opportunity to be one of the area's largest providers of trained allied health professionals in fields such as mammography, polysomnography and pharmacy tech. They offer premier training for the hospitality industry in St. Louis, with programs in Hotel/Restaurant Management, Culinary Arts and Tourism centered around the $5 million Hospitality Studies Center. Forest Park now offers a new degree program in baking and pastries.


Quick Facts

Forest Park won a 2008 innovation award from the Institute of International Education at the United Nations.

Forest Park is located across from the St. Louis Zoo and 1,293-acre city park, and adjacent to several other major health, cultural and educational centers, such as the St. Louis Science Center, Saint Louis University High School and the BJC medical complex.

STLCC was the first district in the United States to simultaneously construct three campuses with a $47.2 million bond issue that, in 1965, was the largest in the history of U.S. community college development at that time.

STLCC was the first district in the United States to simultaneously construct three campuses with a $47.2 million bond issue that, in 1965, was the largest in the history of U.S. community college development at that time.

STLCC's degree programs and training programs serve approximately 65,000 students per semester.

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