The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Inc

CT State CC-Northwestern Campus

Park Place East
Winsted
Connecticut, 06098
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(860) 738-6300

General Description of School

Northwestern Connecticut Community College (NCCC), a member of the Connecticut Community College System, is a two-year coeducational institution that was founded privately in 1965 by the Committee on Community College for Northwestern Connecticut, Inc. and opened in September of that year. On November 19, 1965, the College came under the jurisdiction of the State of Connecticut, is now governed by the Board of Regents for Higher Education and is one of twelve community colleges in the system. It is located in Winsted, a bucolic small town, and serves a primarily rural section of the state. Winsted is situated in the northwestern region of Connecticut, twenty-five miles west of Hartford and twenty-seven miles north of Waterbury. Northwestern Connecticut Community College offers programs that lead to the Associate in Science degree, the Associate in Arts degree, plus credit and non-credit Certificates.