Working at Butler County Community College

Since 1965, we have focused on offering education that is at a reasonable cost, good quality, and convenient with your life, either online or close-to-home or work. In addition to our main campus in Butler, we have six locations in seven counties in Northwestern Pennsylvania.

Here’s what we offer at BC3

• 2- year Associate degrees in 54 majors
• 1- year Certificates
• Bachelor’s degrees in select majors with partner colleges and universities for Fall 2015
• Many students, 70%, come to BC3 and transfer to other colleges and universities to go on for a Bachelor’s degree.
• About 30% of our students come here, get a degree, and then get a job.

There are a lot of options today.

• We also have customized business and industry training programs
• Lifelong learning classes for fun and professional enrichment
• Fire, EMS, HazMat, Police and Energy trainings

Fast Facts about BC3:

• 5300 credit students a year
• Open Admissions – you can go here with a high school diploma or GED
• 70 % of our students get financial aid and go to BC3 debt-free
• Over 100 scholarships and we give out $200,000 in scholarships a year
• 81 online courses, 27 hybrid courses
• Average class size is 18
• Age ranges 16 to 79
• Most students work one or two jobs and go to college and/or have family responsibilities
• We have childcare on the main campus if you need
• We have tutoring at all locations
• We have 15,000 people who take noncredit classes a year