Cape Fear Community College
is located in they city of Wilmington on the banks of the Cape Fear River. More
than 27,000 students take classes at Cape Fear Community College every year.
Cape Fear Community College is well known for its two-year college transfer
degrees. After graduation students can transfer to any four-year college or
university in North Carolina. Over 60 technical programs in a wide range of
areas are available for hands-on training to get a job right after graduation.
Employers routinely contact CFCC seeking graduates right after graduation.
Cape Fear Community College offers the following transfer programs:
Art Education, Business Education, Marketing Education, Criminal Justice, Elementary
Education,
English, English Education, History, Middle Grades Education, Special Education,
Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, and Speech/Communication.
Cape Fear Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees. The
following demographics apply to the students attending this college: 80% white;
20% non-white; 53% female; 47% male; Average age is 28.
University of North Carolina
in Wilmington was founded as the two-year Wilmington College in 1947 and became
a four year institution in 1963. More than 11,653 take courses in one of the
college 73 bachelor’s degree programs and 28 graduate programs. The University
of North Carolina has the fourth highest freshman SAT average (1134), the third
highest freshman retention rate (85.7 percent), and the third highest six-year
graduation rate (61.2 percent) in the UNC system.
For the eighth year, UNCW was seventh among the top public
master’s universities in the South by U.S. News & World Report, and
Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges lists UNCW at the “very competitive”
level. This College 2 to four year programs include: Anthropology, Art and Art
History, Biology and Marine Biology, Communication Studies, Computer Science,
Health and Applied Human Sciences, Physics and Physical Oceanography, Sociology
& Criminal Justice, Fine Arts in creative writing, Science in Accountancy,
Science in Nursing, and Social Work.
Contact information:
Cape Fear Community College
411 N. Front St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
Phone: (910) 362-7000
601 S. College Road,
Wilmington NC 28403
Phone: (910) 962-3000