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Your TCC Path: Science, Engineering, and Math

Explore Endless Opportunities

This is your path to launching or enhancing your career in rewarding, well-paid, and in-demand fields in science, engineering, and mathematics. You’ll gain problem-solving skills that will propel you forward and help you smoothly transition to a four-year university.
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Creating a Path to Success

Getting Started

Do you have the tools you need to succeed?
Do you need to get to college level?
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Learning Within This Pathway

The Science, Engineering, and Math Pathway leads to careers that are rewarding, well paid, and in demand. Students in this pathway focus on solving problems through a mixture of creativity, experimentation, and data analysis. Our degrees are designed to smoothly transfer to a four-year university so that you can begin your journey toward a career as a software engineer, medical doctor, architect, data scientist, cryptographer, genetic engineer, environmental scientist, actuary, aerospace engineer, and more.

Start off your first quarter with a Learning Community. These cohorts help set students up for success in navigating college, and could save you time and money by helping you identify your career and degree goals right away.

 

Beyond This Pathway

 

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Earn a degree or a certificate. Explore all of our programs and find one that matches your interests and goals. An associate degree is a college degree that typically takes two years to complete for a full-time student. Associate degrees provide students with the skills and knowledge to enter the workforce or continue their education. A bachelor degree is a college degree that typically takes fours years to complete for a full-time student. TCC offers a variety of Bachelor of Applied Science degrees that are designed specifically for working professionals and offer training for advancement within specific career paths. Certificates help you prepare for a new career, advance your existing skills, or enter the job market. They can either be earned as stand-alone options or be applied to a college degree.

The Programs

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Support for Success & Well-Being

Tuition & Payment

TCC is typically 1/3 the cost of a state university. Find out about how much college costs so you can plan for your finances.

Financial Aid

Nearly 60 percent of all TCC students receive some kind of financial aid to help pay for school. We can help you make an investment in your education.

Ways to Pay

There are resources to help you pay for college, including scholarships, grants, workforce education funding, student emergency funds, and much more.

Veterans Benefits

Service members, military veterans, and their families have unique needs when it comes to furthering their educational goals.

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