While many students come to Collin College seeking a certificate or two-year degree to enter the workforce quickly, about 40 percent of the college’s student body plans to move on to a four-year college or university. Collin College makes seeking a bachelor’s or other degree easier by providing guaranteed admission to 10 Texas universities for qualified students and offering university programming at the Collin Higher Education Center (CHEC) and other sites.
Collin College has pre-admission agreements with Austin College, Baylor University, Dallas Baptist University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas Tech University, Texas Woman’s University, Texas Wesleyan University, The University of Texas at Dallas and University of North Texas. The agreements allow students to complete the first two years of their bachelor’s degree at Collin College at Collin’s tuition rates – the lowest in Texas – and are guaranteed admissions to the partner university when its admission requirements are met.
Each program has its own admissions procedure, but Collin College’s pre-admission partners work with students during their time at Collin to prepare them for the transfer process, ensuring that transfer requirements are met. In most cases, the home university provides advising and other benefits like campus visits, university facility access and scholarship availability for students in their pre-admission programs. You can learn more about the district’s pre-admission partnerships at www.collin.edu/transferu/Pre-admnProg.html.
If a student plans to pursue a bachelor’s or higher degree, but prefers to stay closer to home, the district offers other partnership options at its Collin Higher Education Center (CHEC) facility. The CHEC hosts classes from A&M-Commerce, Texas Tech, TWU, UTD and UNT, with more than two dozen degree plans ranging from bachelor’s to doctorates. Classes are taught by the home university’s faculty and are as rigorous as any taught at the home university’s campus. You can learn more about the Collin Higher Education Center at www.collin.edu/chec or by calling 972.599.3100.
The district’s partnership with A&M-Commerce also extends to other bachelor’s degree coursework at the college’s Preston Ridge Campus in Frisco, where students can prepare for careers in marketing, business, environmental science and agribusiness. Learn more at www.tamuc.edu/academics/locations/Frisco.