Estrella Mountain Community College

The Financial Aid Office/​Supervisor is Completely Incompetent…
The school however is fine, but the financial aid staff do not know what they are doing. It takes 5 people to figure out 1 problem, then when the «Supervisor» is called she is no better, and acts as though she knows what she is talking about and is completely worthless. If it weren’t for this unprofessional FA staff & their supervisor, this school would be a much better option in the west valley for community colleges. The executive board needs to «clean house» and get rid of those who can’t efficiently guide students through the FA process, without acting like it’s a burden, and unwillingness to assist beyond their means, and complete lack of professionalism whatsoever! No other school has this problem but EMCC. Seeing the other reviews I’m not the only one saying this… EMCC Fire the incompetent Manager/​Supervisors in the FA Dept…

Great staff, strong IT infrastructure. Repeat student.

Advisement here sucks. Takes hours even when there’s no one else in the waiting room. Smh have gotten up and left twice

I love my experience in the MA program. I enjoy all the hands on experience we received. We have the opportunity to do venipunctures and all our practicums on human beings. I would highly recommend this program :)

The Medical Assisting program is amazing! It is hands on and you are required to perform many clinical procedures in the lab. There are over 100 blood draws that are needed to be performed and tons of injections, vitals, etc. It helps prepare you for a future job as a Medical Assistant. It also promotes proper technique and gets rid of any fear of doing any procedures. Mrs Thank and Mrs Galligan are amazing Instructors. Mrs Susan is a great block 1 instructor. They all help their students succeed in the program and they are not the «out to get you» kind of teachers. They want their students to succeed and excel out there in the field. When the students succeed, they too succeed at their job. They prepare one to be a healthcare professional. It’s definitely not like other programs out there. Not to mention that the price is also very reasonable!!!

EMCC is a beautiful campus. It is not overcrowded. I take co and pre-​requisites for my BSN here and at GCC. They have some excellent A & P (BIO 201 and 202) professors. They have horrible Chemistry and Microbiology professors. Please see
. They have a new nursing adviser. I recommend avoiding her and going to the nursing advisor at GCC. EMCC has gone thru several nursing advisors over the last year. This one gives out incorrect information on a regular basis. I placed EMCC at the bottom of my nursing CEP list, because of the advising disarray.

Emcc is a great college. Clean and not overcrowded. Definitely check out the medical assisting program if your interested in the medical field. The instructors have lots of experience and are great educators!!!

The employees/​students at EMCC are very friendly, however, they can be very unprofessional. I feel like students run the campus and the adults sit and watch. It’s been almost a month for the entire Maricopa county school district to process my one piece of paperwork, holding me back from financial awarding. I’ve been in arizona for 4 years and this happens to be the most unprofessional school I’ve had to deal with. Never, have I witnessed such a lack of work ethic in a higher education facility. I’m not even sure I want to attend EMCC anymore, for the simple fact that I’ve spent months trying to get prepared for school, when they may not award me at all. Why should I have to call every week to make sure you’re doing your job? I see no justification in that whatsoever. I have my own job to do, so I’d expect them to do their job, not laugh and giggle on the phone because you’re not used to the technology. Isn’t that the reason you’re working at the school? To learn? It just blows my mind that they take an entire week to process 1 days worth of paperwork. I hope they get it together soon, especially for the safety of my education. I’d hate to be taught by the same people that can’t even file simple paperwork.

My ambitious younger cousin decided to sign up for some online internet courses over the summer. His high school has a deal with the community colleges in Phoenix and EMCC was the closest one to his place.
Though you can pretty much enroll and register online, you do have to come down in person to prove AZ residency. We decided to go down to EMCC, mentally preparing ourselves for a campus run-​around, red tape, and long lines, instead we were pleasantly surprised. We were in and out in about 15 minutes. The staff at Student Services was incredibly helpful and knew exactly what to do. We didn’t have to walk around to 10 different buildings getting our forms signed. Thank God!
On top of that EMCC’s campus is beautiful. Being built in the 90s, Estrella Mountain is a nice modern campus, new buildings and well landscaped. Parking is convenient and it looks like there are actually couple neat places to eat and hang out on campus. Definitely not your typical community college.

Not too small, not too big, and a great community of staff, faculty, and students alike! It’s a Maricopa Community College, so it has many similarities… same pricing and all that. Lots of outdoor seating and nice areas, plus some cool water features. If you can find them, there is a Koi Pond and a Turtle Pond near Ocotillo (unfortunately, most people use that area for smoking.) The Library is great, too. They have a restaurant for culinary students, but I’ve never been. Oh, and some of the buildings are pretty awesome. Mariposa, for example, is very «green» in design (very environmentally friendly inside and out) and even turns into a water feature when it rains here in the desert :) This is probably to mimic the waterfalls that occur in places like the White Tanks when it rains here.
Classes do fill up quickly, and there is no late enrollment. Some classrooms are small, others are nicely sized. Some have computers for every student, others do not have enough or any at all. As for the computers in the classrooms… lots of issues with them, but other students are likely the cause! Overall, such a great community college!

EMCC is pretty decent, it’s smaller and not as overcrowded as GCC. They offer Online classes too. Decent Instructors… some good, some not so great, but that could happen at any school.
The campus café is very tiny, like the size of living room. Bring your own bagged lunch or snacks, plenty of places to sit.
The campus is located on the NW corner of Dysart & Thomas. Parking has never been a problem here. Classes fill up very quickly each semester, so sign up early.