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kingsborough community college

2001 Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn, NY 11235

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Kingsborough Community College is located on a 70-acre campus in Manhattan Beach, on the southern tip of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1963, the College serves approximately thirty thousand students per year, offering a wide range of credit and non-credit courses in the liberal arts and career education, as well as a number of specialized programs. It offers open access to education by accepting all students with a high school diploma or GED and provides developmental courses as well as English as a second language instruction.

In addition, Kingsborough offers a number of programs for special populations, including the My Turn program for senior citizens; College Now, a unique partnership with area high schools.; the Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, a public school located on the Kingsborough campus; and Family College that provides public schooling on campus for the children of Kingsborough students who are on public assistance.

As Brooklyn’s community college, Kingsborough sponsors hundreds of community events each year that attract visitors to the campus, including a free summer music festival and a performing arts festival. Last year more than 200,000 people attended special events hosted by Kingsborough.

  • Some 20,000 credit students and an additional 15,000 Continuing Education students attend Kingsborough Community College on an annual basis
  • Kingsborough Community College serves students of all ages, both the traditional high school student as well as the non-traditional adult learner.
  • Kingsborough students speak 73 different main languages and come from 142 different countries.
  • Kingsborough Community College serves students of various ethnicities: African American/Black 33.3%, Asian/Pacific Islander 11.4%, Caucasian/White 40.9%, Hispanic 14.5%, Native American .1%.
  • Kingsborough students are 60% female and 40% male.

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