ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Asheville, North Carolina
http://www.abtech.edu
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College was founded in 1959. It is accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It first offered distance learning courses in 1999. In fall 2005, there were 680 students enrolled in distance learning courses. Institutionally administered financial aid is available to distance learners.
Services Distance learners have accessibility to academic advising, bookstore, campus computer network, career placement assistance, e-mail services, library services.
Contact Darlene Wilson, Director of Distance Learning, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, 340 Victoria Road, Asheville, NC 28801. Telephone: 828-254-1921 Ext. 300. Fax: 828-281-9831. E-mail: [email protected].

DEGREES AND AWARDS

Programs offered do not lead to a degree or other formal award.

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS OFFERED OUTSIDE OF DEGREE PROGRAMS

Undergraduate —accounting and related services; applied mathematics; biology; business administration, management and operations; computer and information sciences; computer programming; data entry/microcomputer applications; economics; health and physical education/fitness; history; human development, family studies, and related services; linguistic, comparative, and related language studies; mathematics; philosophy and religious studies related; psychology; sociology; speech and rhetoric; statistics.
Non-credit —building/constructionfinishing, management, andinspection; business administration, management and operations; business/corporate communications; computer programming; computer systems networking and telecommunications; data entry/microcomputer applications; entrepreneurial and small business operations; family and consumer economics; film/video and photographic arts; human development, family studies, and related services; human resources management; linguistic, comparative, and related language studies; marketing; quality control and safety technologies; sales, merchandising, and related marketing operations (specialized).