Yavapai College Facts
99% of recent graduates would recommend Yavapai College to friends or family
- Established: 1966
- Mission: To provide high quality, convenient and cost-effective learning opportunities for the diverse populations of Yavapai County
- 6 Campuses: Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Verde Valley and Sedona
- 77 sites throughout Yavapai County host classes
- 20 students average per class
- 34 associate and transfer degree programs
- 53 certificate programs
- More than 15,000 students enrolled
More than 3,400 classes offered at YC, from Accounting to Welding!
- More than 95 full-time faculty and 500 adjunct faculty
- Over a million items available through the Yavapai Library Network
- Over 10,000 full-text online journals accessible through the library’s 34 databases
- More than $11 million awarded each year in financial aid to two-thirds of degree-seeking students
- Men’s athletic teams in baseball, basketball and soccer and women’s teams in basketball, volleyball and softball compete in Division I of the National Junior College Athletics Association
- The Yavapai College Foundation has awarded almost $1 million in scholarships to more than 1500 students over the past decade
Yavapai has a wide variety of transfer programs to prepare students for enrollment at Arizona's three universities!
- 25% annual return on students’ investments. For every $1 a student invests in YC, he or she will receive a cumulative $4.35 in higher future earnings over the next 30 years
- $69,500,000 bond issue passed by taxpayers in 2002 to fund major construction and renovations.
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