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A FORCE IN
WORKFORCE
EDUCATION

KC offers many Professional and Career Education programs and courses designed to get you the skills you need to enter the workforce or improve your skills for advancement. Licenses, industry certifications, and workforce development contracts with business and industry are also available.
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Kilgore College Fire training program with an image of fire fighters working on putting out a staged car fire

SHORT COURSES
TO HERO STATUS

The Kilgore College Fire Academy is recognized by the State of Texas as an EXEMPLARY PROGRAM and is accredited by the Texas Commission on Fire Protection, State Firefighters’ and Fire Marshals’ Association and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

The ETPA is dedicated to meeting the pre-service and in-service training needs of the officers, agencies, and communities of Northeast Texas. ETPA has provided the East Texas Council of Governments and Ark-Tex Council of Governments service delivery areas.

Quality

Is at our core.

A core curriculum is defined by the state of Texas as “curriculum in the liberal arts, humanities, sciences, political, social, and cultural history, that all graduates of an institution of higher education are required to complete before receiving a baccalaureate degree.”

KC’s Core Curriculum consists of 42 semester credit hours that will transfer to any public college or university in Texas.

After completing the core, a student may need only 18 additional semester credit hours to receive an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science degree.

News & Events

Kilgore College is currently accepting applications to fill a vacancy on its Board of Trustees following the passing of longtime board member Jon Rowe in April. Rowe represented the North Zone, which includes the Gladewater, White Oak and Sabine independent school districts. The individual appointed to this position will serve through the next general election […]

Kilgore College will host a signing ceremony tomorrow to officially announce the college’s mascots for the 2025-26 academic year. The ceremony is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, on the second floor of the McLaurin Administration Building on the Kilgore campus. KC mascots serve as spirited ambassadors for the college, representing Kilgore College at […]