Admissions

Community colleges continue to grow in popularity, enrolling 43 percent of all undegraduates nationwide. Waubonsee has been a solid educational choice for our local community since our founding in 1966. Over the past 40+ years, we’ve helped shape the future of more than 250,000 local students, and we look forward to doing the same for you. 

Explore Learning at Waubonsee to see how our programs can help you meet your educational and career goals on your schedule. Add to that our top-flight facilities, vibrant student life and affordable tuition rates, and you'll see why you should enroll here.

If you need further help or just want to talk someone about your options, our Admissions team is happy to help. Simply stop in during office hours, call or e-mail, and we'll spend some time talking about what Waubonsee can do for you.

• New Credit Student (full-time and/or degree-seeking)
  
Follow these steps if you plan to enroll in 12 or more credit hours per semester and/or wish to earn a degree or certificate here at Waubonsee.

• New Credit Student (part-time and/or not seeking a degree)
  If you just want to take a few courses for college credit, follow this process.

• New Noncredit Student
  If you need to learn a specific professional skill quickly, are looking to a course for the sheer fun of it, or need to build up your basic skills, you’ll probably enroll as a noncredit student in our Workforce Development, Community Education or Adult Education departments.

• High School Student
  Take Waubonsee courses now to earn college credit and/or additional high school credit.