Manchester Community College (Connecticut)

Manchester Community College

Type	Public community college
Established	1963
Parent institution	Connecticut State Colleges & Universities
Academic affiliations	Space-grant
Campus CEO	Dr. Nicole Esposito
Academic staff	456 (Fall 2017)
Students	6,321 (Fall 2017)
Location	Manchester , Connecticut , United States
Campus	160 acres (0.65 km2) Suburban
Mascot	Cougar
Website	www.manchestercc.edu

Manchester Community College (MCC) is a public community college in Manchester, Connecticut. Founded in 1963, it is the third-oldest of the twelve community colleges governed by the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system (CSCU) and has graduated more than 23,000 students since the first class in 1965.

MCC is the largest of the state's community colleges, serving more than 15,000 students a year, with nearly 6,000 undergraduate students in credit programs, and more than 7,000 credit-free and 2,000 credit extension students each year. It has an annual budget of more than $31 million.

In 1996, MCC was named an "Honor Institution" by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation due to its "remarkable history of nurturing and encouraging students' academic and intellectual abilities and motivation."^[1] The college remains the only American community college to have been recognized as such.^[2]

MCC is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.