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KC offers many Professional and Career Education programs and courses designed to get you the skills you need to enter the workforce or improve your skills for advancement. Licenses, industry certifications, and workforce development contracts with business and industry are also available.
Kilgore College Fire training program

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TO HERO STATUS

The Kilgore College Fire Academy is recognized by the State of Texas as an EXEMPLARY PROGRAM and is accredited by the Texas Commission on Fire Protection, State Firefighters’ and Fire Marshals’ Association and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

The ETPA is dedicated to meeting the pre-service and in-service training needs of the officers, agencies, and communities of Northeast Texas. ETPA has provided the East Texas Council of Governments and Ark-Tex Council of Governments service delivery areas.

Quality

Is at our core.

A core curriculum is defined by the state of Texas as “curriculum in the liberal arts, humanities, sciences, political, social, and cultural history, that all graduates of an institution of higher education are required to complete before receiving a baccalaureate degree.”

KC’s Core Curriculum consists of 42 semester credit hours that will transfer to any public college or university in Texas.

After completing the core, a student may need only 18 additional semester credit hours to receive an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science degree.

News & Events

The student-focused comprehensive research guide is based on an assessment of 1,280 accredited colleges and universities, with KC’s program ranked at No. 3 in the nation. Each program was evaluated based on curriculum quality, graduation rate, reputation and post-graduate employment. “To say we’re proud is an understatement,” said D’Wayne Shaw, executive dean of Professional and […]

Kilgore College dance students will display their broad range of dance skills at the tenth annual spring dance concert set for 7 p.m. Saturday, May 4, in Dodson Auditorium on the Kilgore campus. The concert, “Intrinsic,” will offer a variety of dance styles and techniques taught by the KC Dance Department. “It will give dance […]