The College offers credit and noncredit courses off-campus throughout the Coastal Bend area. This program is offered as a community service to make College offerings more accessible throughout its service area. All admission, assessment, tuition and fee requirements are the same as for on-campus credit courses. Progression through the program is self-paced. Once GED students demonstrate the required proficiency in writing, social studies, science, literature and the arts, and mathematics, they are referred for testing.
Instruction is planned to correspond to the sixth through twelfth grade levels of public education.
On average, GED students whose attendance rate is eighty percent or higher tend to pass the GED test within six months of enrollment. Progress in an ESOL conversation class is affected by how much formal education students obtained in their country of origin and by how much the English language is practiced outside the classroom. Classes are offered Monday through Thursday in the morning and evening based on demand. Prior to registration, new students must complete a four-day orientation. However, a small fee is assessed to all students at the time of registration.