ECC
Students in Edgecombe Community College’s Agribusiness Technology animal care class learn how to care for a baby goat.
Whether students want to improve job skills, transfer to a four-year institution or complete a credential and enter the workforce, Edgecombe Community College provides the edge to help students succeed. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the college has made meaningful progress in the last year and a half.
in health sciences at ECC.
extended because of students’ success with
Nursing and BLET programs earned
the High Altitude Balloon Team competition
continuing accreditation. Practical Nursing
and the achievements balloon team members attained through SkillsUSA.
In 2020, ECC launched a new program in
was ranked No. 5 in the state after receiving a
Agribusiness Technology to strengthen the
perfect score by a national nursing advocacy
local agriculture community.
organization.
This forward momentum has continued in 2021. Practical Nursing was ranked No. 4
The new Ophthalmic Medical Personnel
Also in 2020, ECC was the only community
in the state after receiving a perfect score by
program received initial accreditation from its
college in the nation to participate in a
Nursing Schools Almanac. Since the program’s
international accrediting body. Ophthalmic
celebration of Space Grant’s 30th anniversary
inception in 2011, 100 percent of first-time
Medical Personnel is the first evening program
in Washington, D.C. The invitation was
test takers have passed the National Council
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