Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Serving for Over 70 Years: South Central College in Minnesota

The Mankato Free Press published a retrospective article March 5, 2018, "Mankato site of state's first public vo-tech," that provides a brief historical sketch for what is now South Central College.

The institution was founded in 1946 as Mankato Vocational School, the first public, post-secondary vocational-technical school in the state. The name change in 1989 to Mankato Technical College. It merged in 1992 to become Albert Lea-Mankato Technical College. Three years later it joined MN State Colleges and Universities System in 1995. Following realignment, it joined with the Faribault campus of what had formerly been MN Riverland Technical College to become South Central Technical College. The name was changed in 2005 to South Central College.
South Central College serves 5,090 students and offers 45 academic programs. It also serves over 9,000 additional people through customized training and continuing education programs.


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