St Louis community college - Meramec
11333 Big Bend Road
St. Louis, Missouri

The Meramec campus at St. Louis Community College, located in southwestern St. Louis County, is 78-acre campus that offers associate degree and transfer programs as well as career and technical programs in horticulture, occupational therapy assistant, physical therapist assistant, architectural technology, interior design and information reporting technology. The fine arts and visual technology programs are nationally recognized. The campus houses the Center for Visual Technology, which holds state-of-the-art instruction labs with the latest Macintosh computer workstations, operating systems and software. It serves students who are training for careers in emerging visual arts areas. The art program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.

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.

Meramec offers nationally ranked intercollegiate athletic programs as well as student programs such as theater productions, concerts and art exhibits. Athletic programs are part of the National Junior College Athletic Association and the Midwest Community College Athletic Conference and include soccer, basketball, baseball and wrestling for men, and softball, soccer, volleyball and basketball for women as well as cheerleading squad for men ad women. The facilities at the Meramec campus include more than 100 smart classrooms, the Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, the Meramec Theatre, the Meramec Campus Child Care Center , the Meramec gymnasium, and the Meramec Library.

Quick Facts

More than 40 percent of the district's students attend Meramec and nearly 70 percent of those students are enrolled in the college transfer curricula.

Seventy percent of Meramec students who plan to transfer go on to four-year universities and have equal or better grade-point averages than those who began as freshmen with that institution.

The men's and women's soccer at Meramec have won national championships and in total, there have been 62 top ten finishes at nationals with 224 student athletes earning All-America honors, and 40 earning Academic All-America recognition.

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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