Tarrant County College (TCC) or Tarrant County College District (TCCD) is a

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Tarrant County, Texas Tarrant County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, it had a population of 2,110,640. It is Texas' third-most populous county and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth. Tarrant County, one of ...

. It offers Associate of Arts, an Associate of Science, an Associate of Applied Science, and Associate of Arts in Teaching degrees. As of 2008, the institution was ranked as the sixth largest in Texas among community colleges and universities with student enrollment for credit hours of 98,000. Five physical campuses, a virtual campus (TCC Connect) and a centralized office make up the TCC District. Originally called Tarrant County Junior College (TCJC), the school began on July 31, 1965, after voters approved a bond election for the formation of a junior college district. In 1958, the South Campus was the first campus to open in south Fort Worth; in 1967, the Northeast Campus was built in

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. A third campus, Northwest, was added in 1976, in northwest Fort Worth. In 1996, the Southeast Campus was built in Arlington. The fifth, Trinity River Campus, opened in downtown Fort Worth fall of 2009. In 1999, the College District decided to drop the "Junior" from the college name. As defined by the

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, the official service area of TCCD includes all of Tarrant County.Texas Education Code, Section 130.201, "Tarrant County Junior College District Service Area".

Notable alumni

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, businessman and politician * Mack White, cartoonist

Collegiate High Schools

Tarrant County College offers several dual-credit programs that offer an Associates Degree along with a High School Diploma. These schools are called "Collegiate High Schools." *Marine Creek Collegiate High School (Northwest Campus) *Texas Academy of Biomedical Sciences (Trinity River Campus) *TCC South Campus - FWISD Early Collegiate High School (South Campus) *Collegiate Academy at Tarrant County College (Northeast Campus) *Arlington Collegiate High School (Southeast Campus)

References

External links

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