HLC Accreditation: 2017 Comprehensive Review

In the context of our global society, the mission of Northwest College is to be student-centered; be forward-thinking; cultivate community; prepare students for transfer, career, and life; and retain and graduate students.

Founded in 1946, NWC is a two-year, comprehensive community college serving Park County (tax district) and Park, Big Horn and Washakie Counties (service area).

Higher Learning Commission
(www.hlcommission.org)

1,754 credit students

• 56% — full time
  44% — part time
  77% — Wyoming
  19% — other states
    3% — other countries

$12,018 approximate total

• $2,789 — resident tuition & fixed fees†
  $5,198 — room & board (2 per room, 19 meals/week)
  $1,000 — books & supplies
  $1,684 — personal/miscellaneous
  $1,347 — transportation

†$6,773 nonresident tuition & fixed fees

•     62% — institutionally funded
      38% — privately funded
  $3,069 — average annual scholarship

• 141 — faculty, 76 full-time
  
  •    12:1 student-to-faculty ratio
       37% of full-time faculty hold doctorates or terminal degrees 
        (national community college average is about 19%)
  153 — administrative, professional and classified staff

• 132 — total acres
    62 — buildings (includes West Campus buildings)

• Mickelson Field Station (50 miles west of Powell)
• Cody Center
• Worland Center
• Trapper Arena

• 53 — transfer degrees
• 18 — technical degrees
• 30 — certificates

• 653,618 — books and e-books
•   73,066 — periodicals and e-periodicals
• 467,594 — media and e-media (video, audio, digital)
• Access on and off campus to 404 online databases

• $14,992,114 — state funding
    $4,862,207 — local funding 
        (Park County mill levy, motor vehicle taxes, etc.)
    $4,183,444 — tuition & fees
    $3,941,015 — auxiliary fund
        (bookstore, residence halls, etc.)
    $2,256,559 — federal grants/contracts
    $1,988,533 — other sources
        (state & local grants/contracts, private gifts/grants/contracts, endowment income)

(As of Dec. 31, 2015 - unaudited)

•      $12,918,934 — NWC (managed by NWC Foundation)
       $18,817,248 — NWC Foundation

• Association founded in 1988
  (First two-year college alumni association in Wyoming)
• nwc.edu/alumni

• 5th largest employer in county
• $4,728,823 annual expenditures in goods and services in Park County (est.)
• Total added regional income from college operations/alumni/student spending: $88,663,000 (Source: Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc., 2016 study of WY community colleges)

Over 100 public programs/events on campus each year

    John Housel, Cody

    Stefani Hicswa, Ph.D.