College Profile:
North Lake College

North Lake College(North Lake) sits on 276 wooded acres in the northwest corner of Dallas County, a high-growth area between Dallas and Ft. Worth — Irving/Las Colinas, which combines a hundred-year old established community with a dynamic urban center. Las Colinas is a well-known master-planned corporate and residential community that is home to many Fortune 500 companies.

North Lake was created as part of the Dallas County Community College system in 1977. It is a public community college with an open-door admission policy. The college serves a student population of more than 9,000 credit students and 5,000 continuing education students per semester. The campus includes twelve buildings on the main campus at 5001 N. MacArthur in Irving, with satellite campuses in downtown Irving, the South Irving Center, and the DFW Education Center next to the DFW airport.

The DFW Education Center is an educational facility developed through a partnership between the college and the Construction Education Foundation. The 60,000-sq. ft. building includes classrooms and laboratories for both management and skill-based education for the construction industry.

North Lake offers academic courses, technical programs, and continuing education for a degree, career or personal development. Students can receive an Associate of Arts and Sciences or Associate of Applied Science degree in over 24 areas of study or earn a Certificate of Completion in a chosen field and enter the workforce as a skilled employee after one or two years of study.

Transfer students from North Lake enjoy a high rate of success in four-year institutions. Scholarships are available for students who maintain a high GPA at North Lake from area public and private universities.