CSCC enrolls more than 20,000 students each quarter. The academic year consists four quarters, 11 weeks each. Average class size is 19 students. Faculty-to-student ratio is 17:1. Columbus State offers more than 140 associate degree and certificate programs in areas of business, health, health/public services and engineering technologies. Columbus State Community College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission; Member-North Central Association.

Participants:

Columbus State Community College offers two types of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs:  a non-credit, Basic English program and an academic credit, ESL program.

Those who are interested in non-credit, basic English as a second language courses, contact the CSCC Language Institute for testing and course information. 

Those who are interested in pursuing an academic credit program and already have a foundation of speaking, listening, reading, and writing in English, there is a need to complete the COMPASS/ESL placement test.  If English is not student’s first language, your placement test will include a timed writing sample and computerized reading and grammar/usage components. 

Credit courses:
- Fiction for Non-Native Readers
- College Vocabulary
- Critical Skills for College Success
- Basic Oral Communication
- Intermediate Oral Communication
- Advanced Oral Communication
- Public Speaking for Non-Natives
- Basic English as a Second Language
- Developmental English as a Second Language
- Reading, Grammar, and Composition
- English as a Second Language: Composition
- Special Topics in English as a Second Language

Tuition
$175.00 per 1 credit hour