Location: Ephraim
Role/mission: Type IV institution, offers associate degrees and certificate programs. Upper-division courses offered only through cooperative agreements with other state institutions. Applied technology offerings designed to meet employer needs. Transfer program to prepare students for upper-division work. Faculty are expected to spend 30 credit hour equivalents in the classroom per year.
Admission requirements: Open enrollment with testing for placement. Remedial courses available.
Enrollment, 2002-03: 3,768 head count.
Degrees awarded, 2001-02: Certificates, 134; associate 765; total 899.
Tuition and fees 2002-03: Resident, $1,523; nonresident, $5,742 (two full semesters).
President Michael T. Benson: "Snow College is best known for its academic quality, committed faculty and friendly learning environment. It is a premier transfer institution with nearly 70 percent of our graduating students going on to four-year institutions. Our areas of particular strength are music and theater, science, pre-engineering, pre-pharmacy and education, and we also have wonderful opportunities for extracurricular involvement with clubs, service organizations, athletics, performing groups and intramurals. The college serves as the cultural, intellectual and athletic focal point for Sanpete County and central Utah. With more students now graduating from high school with both a diploma and an associate's degree, our pool of potential students is shrinking. Also, other state institutions that started out like Snow College have now grown into different types of institutions. We are addressing these and other challenges by establishing partnerships with four-year institutions to offer a select number of bachelor's degrees."