Locations: Nine campuses: Ogden/Weber ATC, Ogden; Davis ATC, Kaysville; Bridgerland ATC, Logan; Mountainland ATC, Orem; Salt Lake/Tooele ATC, Salt Lake City; Uintah Basin ATC, Roosevelt; Southeast ATC, Price; Southwest ATC, Cedar City; Dixie ATC, St. George.

Role/mission: Type V institution, technical college. Accepts both high school students and adults. Awards only associate degrees, with general education courses provided by a higher education partner institution. Certificates mark completion of short- and long-term technical training programs. Programs are open-entry and open-exit and based on achievement of competency. Designed to meet employer needs. Faculty are selected largely based on work experience in the desired field as well as academic preparation.

Admission requirements: Open entry. Students may be tested for placement and may be helped to attain levels required for the technical education they seek.

Enrollment 2002: Unduplicated head count, 58,913 membership hours, including 14,740 high school, 44,710 adult. (The total does not indicate students enrolled in more than one ATC.) The number is equal to 6,621 full-time equivalent students in the higher education system. In addition, the Custom Fit program had 26,408 trainees.

Certificates and degrees granted 2002-03: UCAT only recently began offering associate degrees. Certificates for completion of programs ranging from a few hours to two years of study are awarded throughout the year.

Tuition and fees: (Effective July 1) $1 per hour.

President Gregory Fitch: "Our strength is being able to utilize the open-entry, open-exit system and competency-based education to meet the needs of business and industry in a timely way. Our challenge is to have Utahns understand that as state colleges, we now have the capacity to grant associate degrees and to recognize applied technology education as a valid and acceptable way to prepare people for satisfying, good-paying jobs, even when the courses do not lead to a degree."

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