Kirkwood Community College Company

MISSION

Kirkwood Community College identifies community needs; provides accessible, quality education and training; and promotes opportunities for lifelong learning.

VISION

To be the leader in regional, national, and global education

VALUES

Respect, Excellence, Responsibility, Diversity

Only at Kirkwood...

•The Hotel at Kirkwood Center, the nation's only luxury teaching hotel at a two-year college.

•A state-of-the-art wind turbine that is used as a live training center for our Energy Production and Distribution program.

•EagleTech, Kirkwood's Apple Authorized Campus Store, is one of only three such stores in the state.

•The most credit programs in the state, ranging from Accounting to Welding.

•The Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center, one of the first health care simulation centers in Iowa.

•The only Dental Technology program in the Midwest.

•Our cadaver lab is one of a select few in Iowa.

•The only Floral Careers program in the state.

•KCCK, eastern Iowa's only jazz radio station.

•The Iowa Equestrian Center, the Midwest's premier equestrian facility.

Nationally Recognized as a Top School

•Of the 1,200 community colleges nationwide, only 18 sit on the League for Innovation board of directors. And just one is in Iowa: Kirkwood.

•In 2015, Kirkwood was one of nine community colleges in the country to be honored by the US Department of Education as a Green Ribbon School for our commitment to environmental preservation.

•Kirkwood's ground breaking partnership with the University of Iowa, one of the leading medical research universities in the country, created the Kirkwood Regional Center at the University of Iowa, located at the University of Iowa's Research Park.

•State-of-the-art health care simulation center, innovative new regional centers and visionary new labs. Kirkwood is a college on the move, growing each day.