Adult learners

The new Michigan Achievement Scholarship is the latest way families can cut college costs by choosing NMC.

NMC and Michigan Reconnect transform adult learner’s college experience

Adult student finds success after second plunge into college

NMC is working with other regional leaders to solve the workforce puzzle, but it’s proving tricky. Complex, interlocking factors including a skills gap, a lack of child care and attainable housing, transportation issues, broadband internet gaps and an aging population, all exacerbated by COVID-19, have created structural instability that threatens economic growth and quality of life.

NMC awarded $30,000 in tuition, housing and bookstore gift certificates as an incentive to students to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Northwestern Michigan College received an aviation workforce development grant to train high school teachers in Unmanned Aerial Systems to address the need for operators and technicians in the growing UAS field.

Military veterans can now convert active duty sea service into credit toward an engineering officer bachelor’s degree at NMC’s Great Lakes Maritime Academy.