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Greater Altoona Career & Technology Center

Altoona, Pennsylvania Public Less than 2-year Small city

Overview

Greater Altoona Career & Technology Center is a public career and technical school in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Its campus is in a small city. It enrolled 220 students in fall 2024.

Greater Altoona Career & Technology Center offers certificates across 23 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training, Dental Assisting/Assistant, and Electrical and Power Transmission Installers, Other. It awarded 143 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

The school has an open admission policy. 73% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 10 to 1.

Key figures

Open
Admission policy
220
Students enrolled
73%
First-year retention
143
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
23
Programs and majors
10:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

Campus

Program levels

Certificate

Programs and majors offered 23

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Health Professions 4
Mechanic and Repair Technologies 5
Construction Trades 3
Precision Production 3
Business, Management and Marketing 1
Communications Technologies 1
Computer and Information Sciences 2
Culinary, Cosmetology and Personal Services 1
Engineering Technologies 2
Visual and Performing Arts 1

Admissions

Admission policy
Open admission

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

First-year retention, full-time students
73%
First-year retention, part-time students
82%
Student-to-faculty ratio
10:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Certificates under 1 year
46
Certificates of 1 to 2 years
97

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
220
Undergraduates, fall 2024
220
Full-time, fall 2024
95%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
282
Full-time, 2024-25
84%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
76%
Men
24%
White
87%
Hispanic or Latino
2%
Black or African American
7%
Asian
1%
Two or more races
2%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Students studying fully online
0%
Students taking some online courses
0%
Weekend or evening classes
Yes

Campus and services

Setting
Small city
Academic calendar
Differs by program
Executive Director
Mrs. Nicole Zernick
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling, Student employment services, Job placement for graduates
For veterans and service members
Yellow Ribbon Program

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