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Education & Public Services
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Industrial Electricity and Programming
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Complete an associate degree at NSCC, then transfer seamlessly to a four-year college or university of your choice to finish your Bachelor’s Degree. Or explore the Ohio Guaranteed Transfer Pathways and the Ohio Transfer Module.

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Communications, English & Humanities
Careers and transfer opportunities in creative arts, education and education administration, history, interdisciplinary programs and pre-professional programs, journalism and public relations, law, literature, philosophy, political science, sociology, and writing and rhetoric.
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Careers and transfer options in biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy, human and veterinary medicine, technology and engineering, mathematics and data science.
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NSCC makes college affordable. The NSCC Foundation as awarded over $1 million in student scholarships.

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