Holmes Community College has four campuses located throughout central Mississippi. There is the Goodman Campus, the Grenada Center, the Ridgeland Campus, MS, and the Kosciuscko/Attala Education Center. These four locations make up the Holmes Community College family of campuses.
The Goodman Campus is the original campus for Holmes Community College. This location started out as a high school. In 1911 the town of Goodman donated 40 acres of land to establish Holmes County Agricultural High School.
Eleven years later the Mississippi state legislature made it legal for agricultural high schools to add two years of college courses. When the 1928-1929 school year came around they had become a full fledged junior college. The early beginnings of Holmes Community College started out as an agricultural high school, then became Holmes Junior College and in July of 1989 the name of the school had finally became what it is today, Holmes Community College. The campus is located in the eastern part of Holmes county and the administration buildings and offices are located here.
There are on campus dorms and student activities such as athletics, band, and choir are located here. The Grenada Center has been open since 1985 and was awarded the most distinguished chapter at the annual Phi Theta Kappa meeting in 2010. The Ridgeland Campus is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary and has the fastest growing enrollment of all the campus locations. The Kosciuscko/Attala Education Center joined the Holmes Community College family in August of 2007.
The number of students enrolled across the four campuses that are part of Holmes Community College is close to 7,000. Holmes is one of the fastest growing community colleges in the area.
Holmes offers more than just the ability to move on to a university. Holmes offers adult education courses, technical training, and helps prepare those of you that are going on to a university to pursue your degree. Hinds offers academic courses along with career technical courses. Associate’s degrees are available in many majors in the academic category and the academic courses are transferable to most major universities.
The cost to attend Holmes Community College varies from full time students to part time students.
The deciding factor between a full and a part time student is the amount of class hours a student schedules per week. Students that have twelve or more class hours scheduled are considered full time. Students that have less than twelve hours per week are classified as part time. A full time student will living on campus and is classified as in state will pay an estimated total of $3100 per semester.
A full time student living off campus and is classified as in state will pay an estimated $2000 per semester. Part time students living off campus that are classified as in state will pay an estimated $1000 per semester. Full time out of state students will add an additional $1200 to their total and part time out of state students will add $110 per semester hour to their total.
There are eleven different athletic events offered at Holmes. Football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, cheerleading, dazzlers, golf, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, and tennis are all offered at Holmes Community College.
Orientation and registration for the spring semester for 2011 begins January 3rd and 4th with classes beginning on the 5th. The last day students may register, add, or drop a class is January 11th.
