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Southwest Tennessee Community College

Public college in Memphis, Tennessee, US From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Southwest Tennessee Community College is a public community college in Memphis, Tennessee. As the product of a merger between two colleges in 2000, the school has two campuses in Memphis and several satellite centers. The Tennessee Board of Regents operates it.

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History

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Southwest was formed on July 1, 2000, by a merger between Shelby State Community College and the State Technical Institute at Memphis ("STIM").[2] Nathan Essex, the school's founding president, announced in 2014 that he would retire the next summer.[3]

Campuses

Southwest has four locations throughout the Mid-South:[4]

Southwest previously had a campus located in Frayser but sold it to Libertas School of Memphis in 2024 due to declining enrollment.[6]

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Academics

Southwest offers more than 140 programs and has an agreement with LeMoyne–Owen College to make transferring easier.[7] Southwest also offers an associate degree in aviation operations technology with three career tracks: pilot, flight dispatch, and aviation administration.[8]

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