Whatcom Community College

WCC is a great school for students interested in getting a quality education. Many students transfer from the college to four year institutions. My instructors have all been friendly, smart, and dedicated to their work.

I loved the time I spent at WCC. If it wasn’t for WCC, I probably would not have had the drive or the interest to finish my transfer degree. I transferred from a different college where I was failing, avoiding classes, and about to give up on school. WCC’s amazing professors, advisers, and especially their counselors were the key to helping me change things.
The only issues I’ve had at the school were with the information desk staff and the financial aid staff. One woman handed me another student’s financial aid check after checking both my drivers license, student ID, and paper work. After returning the wrong check, she blamed me for giving her «the wrong ID number» even though it ended up being the correct number (along with the other info I provided).
It can also be a little frustrating dealing with student staff members once in a while, but most of them are incredibly helpful.
The campus is beautiful and the class rooms are comfortable. There’s also tons of areas for lounging between classes, eating lunch, studying, etc.
The parking is painless, probably the most painless I’ve ever encountered in a college setting. No parking stickers are required and even during the busiest hours you can find a parking spot, as long as you’re fine with a bit of a walk (across a huge parking lot.)
The professors are amazing, just utilize
. Take the ratings with a grain of salt, of course… but I made the mistake of taking a poorly rated math teacher and regretted it. After that mistake, the rest of my degree was finished by taking amazing teachers that had all received decent ratings on that site.
Basically, WCC feels like a University with its amazing professors and welcoming atmosphere. You just miss out on the painful tuition cost of a University.

Whatcom Community College is a great school. Most of the teachers are very caring and engaging, there is a wide variety of student body (both locals and foreign students) and there the campus is nice, clean and pretty. They offer a decent variety of classes and there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in different activities or programs.

As far as community colleges go, WCC is a step above. It may not be for someone that grew up in Bellingham because there will undoubtedly be many kids from your High School there. It’s nice to get away from that, speaking from personal experience. I went here for a little over a year before starting at WWU and for the most part was happy with campus, parking, staff, and course selection. Check out
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