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Descrizione dell'università (origine: sito web ufficiale dell'università)
Kingsborough Community College is located on a 70-acre campus in Manhattan Beach, on the southern tip of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1963, the College serves approximately thirty thousand students per year, offering a wide range of credit and non-credit courses in the liberal arts and career education, as well as a number of specialized programs.
The breathtaking Kingsborough Community College campus overlooks three bodies of water: Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Kingsborough serves a widely diverse student population and ranks among the top community colleges in the country in associate degrees awarded to minority students.
Kingsborough Community College is a leading point of entry to higher education for Brooklyn residents.
More than half a million students have been served by Kingsborough Community College since it opened its doors forty years ago.
Some 20,000 credit students and an additional 15,000 Continuing Education students attend Kingsborough Community College on an annual basis.
Kingsborough students speak 68 different languages and come from 110 different countries.
Kingsborough Community College serves students of various ethnicities:
* African American/Black 33.3%
* Asian/Pacific Islander 11.4%
* Caucasian/White 40.9%
* Hispanic 14.5%
* Native American .1%
International Students – students who are here on a student visa – are not eligible to receive financial aid or loans from the Federal Government or from the State of New York. This includes the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) as well as all the Title IV Programs such as Pell, S.E.O.G., College Work Study, subsidized and unsubsidized loans, and the College Discovery and Bilingual Programs.
Only U.S. citizens and permanent non-resident aliens holding “Green Cards” or other eligible non-citizens may participate in U.S. and/or state-sponsored financial aid programs. If you are unsure of your immigration status, see an international student counselor, located in room V-114.
There are some scholarships for international students from private sources. Use scholarship search engines such as edupass.org, finaid.org or educationguide-usa.com to find them. |
