Founded in 1925, Centralia College is the oldest continuously operating community college in the state of Washington. the college has a rich heritage of professional, technical, transfer, and basic skills programs serving the community. The college has an enrollment of approximately 10,444 head count.There are approximately 212 full-time employees.
Centralia College welcomes students from other countries whose previous academic record, command of English and general academic interests are compatible with the high standards of Centralia's academic community. In return it provides a well organized, tightly focused support program to enable both international and domestic students to mutually profit from each other's experiences.
Mission:
The mission of Centralia College is to improve people's lives through lifelong learning.
- Access: Centralia College shall provide all students a quality education while keeping the costs of their college experience as affordable as possible.
- Diversity: Centralia College shall provide an inviting and supportive learning environment to those populations that have been traditionally underserved by higher education.
- Educational programs: Centralia College shall provide to our greater community an ever-increasing number of educated people having the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and behaviors to become lifelong learners and productive and responsible citizens more capable of realizing their highest human potential.
- Personal and community enrichment: Centralia College shall provide diverse multicultural, musical, theatrical, artistic, athletic, instructional, and social program experiences for lifelong learning and community enrichment.
- Stewardship: Centralia College shall serve as a model of effective stewardship to the citizens of Washington.
Accreditation:
Centralia College is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
What Centralia College offers
- Small, friendly college
- Student-to-teacher ratio is very small
- An exciting, impressive international student program
- Safe, friendly, caring campus community
- Prominent faculty
- Career counseling and student support services
- Peer tutoring
- Computer labs and computer assistance
- Educational and entertaining campus activities
- Host family services, two international houses and housing referrals
- Specialized attention to students' individual needs
- Orientation to the community and college campus
Location & Facilities
The college is located in the center of the town of Centralia, Washington on a tree-lined, 29-acre campus.
Centralia and the surrounding community have a population of approximately 25,000 people. The college is centrally located in the Pacific Northwest. Centralia is 40 kilometers from the Washington state capitol city of Olympia. The larger cities of Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon are within 140 kilometers of Centralia
The college is on the I-5 corridor in a beautifully green area of forests and farmland. Wide fertile valleys are bordered by picturesque Mt. Rainer and the Cascade Range on the east, and the Willapa Hills on the west. Puget Sound and Hood Canal to the north and the Columbia River and the famous Columbia River Gorge and Mt. Saint Helens to the south are within a short commute from the college.