Your future, our focus
Founding
Founded in 1946, NWC is a two-year, comprehensive community college serving Park County (tax district) and Park, Big Horn and Washakie Counties (service area).
Accreditation
Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
www.ncacihe.org
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1,973 credit students |
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55% — full time |
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$11,447 approximate total |
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$2,693 — resident tuition & fixed fees ($6,485 nonresident) |
(Dollars awarded by NWC)
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43% of students receive scholarships |
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70% — institutionally funded |
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318 total employees |
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151 — faculty, 78 full-time 167 — administrative, professional and classified staff |
Main campus, Powell
Three off-campus locations
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$33,423,763 total (2013-14 year) |
| $13,674,969 — state funding $4,846,868 — local funding (Park County mill levy, motor vehicle taxes, etc.) $4,676,158 — tuition & fees $4,636,945 — auxiliary fund (bookstore, residence halls, etc.) $3,825,910 — federal grants/contracts $1,762,913 — other sources (state & local grants/contracts, private gifts/grants/contracts, endowment income) |
(As of Dec. 31, 2013 - unaudited)
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$23,186,553 total endowment |
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$10,462,668 — NWC (managed by NWC Foundation) |
Founded in 1988
(First two-year college alumni association in Wyoming)
nwc.edu/alumni
22,432 alumni worldwide
$18,322,250 employee payroll (salary & benefits during 2013)
5th largest employer in county
$8,085,360 annual expenditures in goods and services in Park County (est.)
Total student/college operations "spending & productivity effects": $78,004,000 (Source: Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc., 2011 study of WY community colleges)
Board of Trustees President
College President
*Figures based upon fall 2013 data unless noted otherwise.