The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is a Washington state agency that oversees and coordinates between the 34 members of Washington's public community and technical college system. Governed by a nine-member board appointed by the state governor, the system consists of the accredited colleges and their branch campuses, which all offer two-year associate's degrees, with select colleges offering four-year bachelor's degrees.
A system of community colleges in Washington was first established by the Community College Act of 1967, which created 22 community college districts to be governed by a statewide board. The current agency, along with administering the Community and Technical College Act, provides the member colleges with budgetary coordination and inter-college information technology services. The board also coordinates, along with the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, the development of workforce training and other vocational education opportunities.
List There are 34 community and technical colleges within the SBCTC system, serving 30 college districts. CollegeLocationDistrictBates Technical CollegeTacoma28Bellevue CollegeBellevue8Bellingham Technical CollegeBellingham25Big Bend Community CollegeMoses Lake18Cascadia CollegeBothell30Centralia CollegeCentralia12Clark CollegeVancouver14Clover Park Technical CollegeLakewood29Columbia Basin CollegePasco19Edmonds CollegeLynnwood23Everett Community CollegeEverett5Grays Harbor CollegeAberdeen2Green River CollegeAuburn10Highline CollegeDes Moines9Lake Washington Institute of TechnologyKirkland26Lower Columbia CollegeLongview13North Seattle CollegeSeattle6Olympic CollegeBremerton3Peninsula CollegePort Angeles1Pierce College Fort SteilacoomLakewood11Pierce College PuyallupPuyallup11Renton Technical CollegeRenton27Seattle Central CollegeSeattle6Shoreline Community CollegeShoreline7Skagit Valley CollegeMt. Vernon4South Puget Sound Community CollegeOlympia24South Seattle CollegeSeattle6Spokane Community CollegeSpokane17Spokane Falls Community CollegeSpokane17Tacoma Community CollegeTacoma22Walla Walla Community CollegeWalla Walla20Wenatchee Valley CollegeWenatchee15Whatcom Community CollegeBellingham21Yakima Valley CollegeYakima16
Programs
Dual credit SBCTC offers multiple dual credit programs for students in Washington to earn college credit while still enrolled in high school.
CTE Dual Credit CTE Dual Credit, formerly known as Tech Prep, is a dual credit program in which students take career and technical education coursework at their high school and receive college credit from a community or technical college, on top of their high school credit, for the course. Colleges offering CTE Dual Credit partnerships are organized into consortia, although students may be able to register for CTE Dual Credit courses through colleges outside of their regional consortium. Similar to college in the high school programs, which some Washington state colleges also offer, credit is awarded by both the high school and a college for coursework taken at the high school.
Running Start Running Start is a dual credit program offered by the 34 SBCTC colleges as well as three public universities and two tribal colleges in Washington. Students in Running Start take courses at a college to receive transferable college credit and fulfill high school graduation requirements simultaneously.
See also List of colleges and universities in Washington
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