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Rio Grande Community College

Rio Grande Community College
Box 326
Rio Grande, OH 45674-9989

Official telephone: (740) 245-7236

Fax number: (740) 245-5035
Website: www.rio.edu
Screen last updated on: January 2010
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
Semester/term begin dates: in late August and early January.
Calendar system: semester system (two terms comprise academic year)
Month(s) in which new student orientation is held: Orientation for new students held in June, July, and August.
Number and length of summer sessions: Three summer sessions, two of five weeks and one of 10 weeks.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Majors with the highest enrollment: nursing, fine woodworking, business management
Total faculty: 132
Full-time faculty: 81
Part-time faculty: 51

PROGRAMS OFFERED
Special programs offered:
student-designed majors, double majors, honors program, Phi Beta Kappa, pass/fail grading option, internships
Cooperative programs are offered: no
Cooperative education programs:
business

LIST OF MAJORS
Associate's Degrees

  • Administrative Information Technology
  • Administrative Office Assistant
  • Art
  • Chemistry
  • Communications
  • Electrical Engineering Technology/Instrumentation/Process Control Option
  • Fine Woodworking
  • General Studies
  • Health Education
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
  • Interpretation/ASL/English
  • Legal Office Assistant
  • Manufacturing
  • Mathematics
  • Medical Lab Technology
  • Medical Office Assistant
  • Nursing Technology
  • Physical Education
  • Physiology
  • Plant Maintenance Technician
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Scandinavian Languages
  • Social Services
  • Sociology
  • Theatre Technology
Certificates

  • Computer Applications
  • Word Processing

ADVANCED CREDIT/PLACEMENT
Credit placement options:
  • credit for CEEB Advanced Placement (scores of 3 or higher)
  • credit for CLEP general
  • credit for CLEP subject
  • neither credit nor placement for Regents College Exams (RCE)
  • neither credit nor placement for ACT PEP
  • neither credit nor placement for DANTES
  • neither credit nor placement for school's own challenge exams
  • credit and/or placement for relevant military experience
  • credit and/or placement for relevant life experience
  • credit for international baccalaureate