Remington College
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Remington College is an affiliated group of privately owned non-profit post-secondary educational institutions. Remington Colleges, Inc. operates 20 campuses in several US states. Some of the affiliated institutions have been in operation since the 1940s. It is a for-profit college. The credits do not transfer to other colleges, universities, or schools that are under SACSCOC accreditation.
The oldest campuses are Spencer Business College in Lafayette, Louisiana
, founded in 1940, and Tampa Technical Institute in Tampa, Florida
, founded in 1948. The newest campus is in Columbia, SC. From 1985 the affiliated institutions have operated under the ownership of Education America, Inc., later known as Remington College. Today, Remington College is headquartered in Heathrow, Florida
with 20 campus locations. The colleges offer degree and diploma programs that vary by campus in several career fields, including business, information technology, criminal justice, electronics, graphic arts, beauty and fitness, and the health sciences.
The Remington college mission statement reads as follows:
Incorporated into the Remington College online classes are Flash
-driven lectures that include audio, written text, video clips, and knowledge checks. Each interactive, online class includes weekly discussion, homework, quizzes, and a live meeting with the instructor, along with the interactive lectures.
Remington College of Nursing has Florida Board of Nursing approval to offer the Bachelor of Science in nursing degree. Graduates of Remington College of Nursing are eligible to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination - RN (NCLEX - RN).
The oldest campuses are Spencer Business College in Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
, founded in 1940, and Tampa Technical Institute in Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
, founded in 1948. The newest campus is in Columbia, SC. From 1985 the affiliated institutions have operated under the ownership of Education America, Inc., later known as Remington College. Today, Remington College is headquartered in Heathrow, Florida
Heathrow, Florida
Heathrow is a census-designated place and an unincorporated suburban community in Seminole County, Florida, United States. Heathrow is located on the I-4 Corridor in Central Florida, 19 miles Northeast of Orlando and 38 miles Southwest of Daytona Beach...
with 20 campus locations. The colleges offer degree and diploma programs that vary by campus in several career fields, including business, information technology, criminal justice, electronics, graphic arts, beauty and fitness, and the health sciences.
The Remington college mission statement reads as follows:
Remington College believes that a well-educated workforce contributes to the economic and social vibrancy of the diverse communities in which its students, faculty, and staff live. To accomplish its mission, Remington College is committed to providing a caring learning environment in which a technically rich, intellectually stimulating, quality education is delivered by a dedicated faculty and staff.
Community involvement
Remington College Reaches Out is a program that includes philanthropy, community involvement and events to benefit communities where Remington College has a physical campus. These efforts include:- 3 Lives: A blood drive campaign to promote minority blood donations by students, campus faculty, and local community members.
- Adopt Our School: A donation program that encourages community members to nominate local, public schools to win up to $2,000 worth of school supplies.
- Cuts for Kids: A program that provides complimentary haircuts by Remington College cosmetology students to children 17 and under to help parents get their kids ready to go back to school. Salon services are discounted during this promotion for adults.
- Job fairs: To help connect the goals of career-trained graduates with local community employers, many Remington College campuses hold job fairs throughout the year.
- Bone Marrow Drive: By encouraging staff, students and community members to sign up to be bone marrow donors, Remington College hopes to play an important role in health care education and help the overall health of campus communities.
- Prom Night Makeover: Remington College cosmetology students and instructors partner with local high schools to provide complimentary salon services for students headed to prom. Girls can get up-do's, manicures, and pedicures. Guys can get a complimentary haircut.
Bachelor's degree programs
- Criminal JusticeCriminal justiceCriminal Justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts...
- NursingNursingNursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....
(Accelerated BSN) - Organizational Management
- Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting, General Business, Human Resources, Management and Marketing
Associate's degree programs
- Business Administration
- Business Office managementOffice managementOffice manager is a profession related to office supervisory positions.People that hold office management positions conduct special studies and based on the results of these special studies, they develop reports. Apart from developing reports, they also provide input to management on the...
- Clinical Medical Assisting
- Computer and Network administration
- Criminal JusticeCriminal justiceCriminal Justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts...
- Culinary Arts
- Dental Hygiene
- Digital Graphic Art
- Electronics and Computer Technology
- International BusinessInternational BusinessInternational business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundary...
- Paralegal
- Physical TherapyPhysical therapyPhysical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...
Assistant - Process Control Engineering Technology (PCET)
Diploma programs
- Computer Aided Design & Drafting (CADD)
- CosmetologyCosmetologyCosmetology is the study and application of beauty treatment. Branches of specialty including hairstyling, skin care, cosmetics, manicures/pedicures, and electrology....
- Dental Assisting
- Electronics Technology
- Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Professional (HVAC Pro)
- Massage therapy
- Medical Assisting
- Medical Assistant - For students without a GED or high school diploma
- Medical Assisting with X-RayX-rayX-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma...
Tech (Limited Scope) and EKG - Medical Billing and Coding
- Medical Laboratory Assistant
- Pastry Arts
- Personal Fitness trainer
- Pharmacy TechnicianPharmacy technicianA pharmacy technician, also sometimes known as a pharmaceutical technician, is a health care worker who performs pharmacy related functions, generally working under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist or other health professional...
Campuses
Remington College has the following campus locations:- Online, Distance Learning
- Baton Rouge, LouisianaBaton Rouge, LouisianaBaton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...
- Shreveport, LouisianaShreveport, LouisianaShreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
- Lafayette, LouisianaLafayette, LouisianaLafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
- Cleveland, OhioCleveland, OhioCleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
- Cleveland West (North Olmsted), OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
- Colorado Springs, ColoradoColorado Springs, ColoradoColorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...
- Columbia, South CarolinaColumbia, South CarolinaColumbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 129,272 according to the 2010 census. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. The city is the center of a metropolitan...
- Dallas, TexasDallas, TexasDallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
- Fort Worth, TexasFort Worth, TexasFort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
- Honolulu, HawaiiHawaiiHawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
- Houston, TexasHouston, TexasHouston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
- North Houston (Greenspoint), TexasTexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
- Southeast Houston (Webster), TexasTexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
- Little Rock, ArkansasLittle Rock, ArkansasLittle Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...
- Memphis, TennesseeMemphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
- Mobile, AlabamaMobile, AlabamaMobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
- Nashville, TennesseeNashville, TennesseeNashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
- Orlando, FloridaOrlando, FloridaOrlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
- Tampa, FloridaTampa, FloridaTampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
Online degree programs
Remington College announced, in October 2009, new, online programs for students in over 40 states. Online degree programs include:Bachelor's degree programs
- Business Administration with concentrations in General Business, Human Resources, Management, and Marketing
- Criminal Justice
- Organizational Management
Incorporated into the Remington College online classes are Flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
-driven lectures that include audio, written text, video clips, and knowledge checks. Each interactive, online class includes weekly discussion, homework, quizzes, and a live meeting with the instructor, along with the interactive lectures.
Accreditation
Remington College and its predecessor companies have been part of the U.S. higher-education community since 1985. Each campuses is a Career College Association member and is accredited by either Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) or the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS).Remington College of Nursing
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) announced on April 27, 2010 that Remington College's program in nursing has fully met all of the CCNE accreditation standards. Officially recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education, the CCNE is an autonomous accrediting agency whose mission includes the assessment and identification of nursing programs that engage in effective educational practices.Remington College of Nursing has Florida Board of Nursing approval to offer the Bachelor of Science in nursing degree. Graduates of Remington College of Nursing are eligible to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination - RN (NCLEX - RN).