Tyler Junior College (Top Ranked Community College for 2024) - Tyler, TX (2024)

• The mission of Tyler Junior College (TJC) is to provide a comprehensive collegiate experience that is anchored in the rich traditions of a quality education, vibrant campus life and community service. We are committed to providing the best possible learning environment. TJC has specific values and expectations which guide the behavior of all who are part of our TJC campus community. Tyler Junior College offers courses and programs for transferable college credit, college credit designed for immediate workforce entry upon completion, and courses for career preparation, career enhancement and personal interest. Courses are offered in traditional classroom settings, via Instructional Television, online and in some cases, on-site. Our Honors Program allows students to create a more challenging program of study. Our Concurrent Enrollment program allows students in high school to receive college credit, sometimes in settings that also provide high school credit.

School Highlights

• Tyler Junior College was established in 1926 to provide rigidpreparation for students desiring to complete their studies at abaccalaureate institution. As a result of its solid corecurriculum, Tyler Junior College quickly earned a reputation fordeveloping capable and expertly prepared transfer students.Since1926, Tyler Junior College has been fulfilling three promises toits students and the Tyler area by providing a quality education, avibrant student life and service to the community. Tyler JuniorCollege maintains two campuses to serve its students and communitypartners. The Main Campus, 1400 Fifth Street (US Highway 64 East),includes more than 75 acres. At TJC's West Campus, in the 1500block of Tyler's South-Southwest Loop 323, lie the RegionalTraining and Development Complex (RTDC) and the Skills TrainingCenter. The RTDC is home to Continuing Education, the SmallBusiness Development Center, the Tyler Area Business Incubator, theACT Center, TJC Corporate Services, and the Literacy Council ofTyler. The facility is an 84,000-square-foot building whichprovides quick start-up, fast turnaround, and low-cost trainingprograms for business and industry, in addition to offeringlifelong learning and professional enhancement programs for groupsand individuals. Also, four credit technology programs—airconditioning and refrigeration, early childhood education, surgicaltechnology, and vision care technology—are located at the RTDC.Courses offered at Tyler Junior College includes Allied Health &Nursing, Applied Studies, Applied Studies, College PreparatoryStudies, Continuing Studies and University Studies. Tyler JuniorCollege is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the SouthernAssociation of Colleges and Schools to award the associate in artsdegree, the associate in applied science degree and certificates ofproficiency.