All of these add up to a more rewarding college experience. Statistics bear this out. This statistic says volumes about the preparation that community college students receive in the two year institutions. For years, the community college was touted as being an extension of high school. This presumption has proved not only to be unfounded, but for many students a community college education has proven to be superior to the four year institution.
Community college prepares the young student for the rigors of university life.
It has been said that the difference between the adolescent high school student and the mature university student is often about sixty days, the time between high school graduation and college matriculation. Immaturity is not a sin, but it is a burden on the unsuspecting student who packs up and moves into the dorm at a major university. Unfettered from parental ties, the student finds that in spite of his or her desire for freedom, the price of that freedom is often a lack of concern on the part of teachers who teach classes that can be as large as two or three hundred students. In the community college setting, the classes are more in keeping with the size the graduating high school student is accustomed to, therefore, the teachers are able to relate to their students on a personal level. Usually, the community college administration is more attuned to the disciplinary needs of older teen students and seeks to maintain a more structured approach than is usually found in the university setting.