Rockland Community College

Rockland Community College is a two-year college in the State University of New York system, located in hamlet of Viola within the Village of Suffern from the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. The college, established in 1959, became the 18th community college to join the SUNY system - the year Rockland County was celebrating the 350 anniversary of the Hudson River & Lake Champlain in the former county almshouse. The college offers 51 programs and offers both associate degrees and certificates. Additionally, students can earn other degrees, including Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in the arts and sciences, Doctoral Program in Executive Leadership (EdD), technology, and health professions while attending classes at Rockland through articulation programs with four-year schools. The current enrollment is about 7,500 full and part-time students which includes about 125 International students from more than 50 foreign countries and approximately 800 high school enroll in credit courses.[2] The main campus is in Suffern, New York, but instructions are also offered at an extension sites in Haverstraw and Orangeburg. The Spring Valley satellite campus has been discontinued. It was located in the historic North Main Street School.

The College has more than 525 full - and part-time faculty members, including several Fulbright Scholars,SUNY Chancellor's Award winners, and published authors and artists. The faculty-student ratio is 22:1. Rockland has the third highest transfer rate in the SUNY system and has a Continuing Education programs which served about 3,500 each year.