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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.
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SHORT COURSES
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 Kilgore College Theatre Department will host its annual One Act Play Workshop Feb. 10-14 in Van Cliburn Auditorium on the Kilgore campus, providing high school drama programs with a unique opportunity to prepare for the University Interscholastic League’s statewide theatre competition this spring. Throughout the week, students from across Texas will perform their one-act […]

This Spring, the Texas Shakespeare Festival (TSF) will collaborate with Kilgore College Theatre to present William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The production will feature both professional and student actors. The play will run from Feb. 27 to March 2 in Van Cliburn Auditorium on the Kilgore campus. Co-directed by Meaghan and Matthew Simpson, As […]