Blue Mountain Community College

Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC) is a comprehensive community college committed to providing a premier learning environment and support for student success. Program areas include career and technical certificates and degrees, college transfer degrees, college preparatory and adult basic skills training, workforce development programs, continuing education, and community education.  BMCC offers students high-quality instruction, affordable tuition, small class sizes, and student support services such as tutoring, computer labs, academic advising, and disability accommodations.  
 
BMCC serves five counties in northeastern Oregon—Baker, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, and Wallowa—through its locations in Pendleton, Hermiston, Baker City, Milton-Freewater, Boardman, John Day, and Enterprise. In addition, BMCC provides selected on-site services to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. BMCC uses distance education learning modalities to serve residents of the region as well as a small number of students from around the world.
 
On average, BMCC employs 350 full-time and part-time persons, with an annual payroll of over $7,000,000.

In 2009-10, BMCC enrolled 10,873 students, of which 3,345 were seeking a certificate or associate’s degree. A total of 3,814 students received $11.4 million in financial assistance in the form of federal and state assistance, scholarships, grants, tuition waivers, other assistance, and work/study jobs. More than 845 BMCC students and 1,262 prison inmates enrolled in ESL, GED preparation, or adult basic education classes. Both dual credit courses and expanded option classes are offered to area high school students; 903 students earned college credits for advanced classes taken in their high schools and more than 150 different college courses were taken by high school students at BMCC locations or via distance learning. The growth and sophistication of technology have expanded the number of courses offered via distance learning to over 200; 2,476 students took at least one distance learning course in 2009-10.

Typical of community college student populations, the average age of all BMCC students is 35, whereas degree-seeking students average 30 years of age. Student demographic data rely on self-reporting: 2,226 students identified themselves as belonging to minority populations and 539 identified themselves as veterans. Class size is generally fewer than 30 students.