page_title: Northwest Vista College
section_title: Academics
hierarchical_section_title: Northwest Vista College / Academics
caption_attribution_description: English: Northwest Vista College, Texas
context_page_description: Northwest Vista College is a public community college in San Antonio, Texas. It is one of five community college institutions that comprise the Alamo Colleges District in San Antonio. Established in 1995 with a dozen students, Northwest Vista College has an enrollment greater than 17,000 students, and offers a variety of associate degrees and technical certifications.
context_section_description: Students attending Northwest Vista can pursue a wide range of subjects. As a community college, NVC offers programs in Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Science (AS), Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT), Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Certificates of Completion, and Marketable Skills Awards.
  Enrolled students also have the option to take courses that are transferable to many institutions of higher education.  The college has several articulation agreements with the nearby universities such as the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas State University–San Marcos, and the University of the Incarnate Word.  These 2+2 articulation agreements serve to facilitate the admission and academic transfer of students from participating Community Colleges like NVC to a participating 4 year college or university within the state of Texas.
  The current catalog of Northwest Vista College consists of a 46-hour core curriculum mandated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).  The THECB requires that all public colleges and universities in Texas instill at least 42 hours of core curriculum studies into a student's degree plan.  By completing NVC's core curriculum, students are allowed to transfer to any public institution in Texas without the worry of loss of credit in the transfer process.  As long as the core curriculum is completed, the satisfying courses will transfer as a block and the student will not be required to take any more courses at the transfer institution unless the THECB has approved a larger core curriculum at that institution.
caption: Bridge from Juniper Hall to Huisache Hall
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