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Kingston, Pennsylvania CollegesKingston Colleges, Career Education Training Programs and Degrees in Kingston, Pa. Includes Kingston, Pa., online colleges and schools.Kingston, Pa., Colleges and UniversitiesKingston, Pa., is a bedroom community in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area of the Keystone State's Wyoming Valley. From Susquehanna River views to urban nightlife, this growing town of 13,000-plus residents offers recreation for a variety of lifestyles. Kingston collegesKing's College is a private college situated just down the road from Kingston, in the Wilkes-Barre city limits. This beautiful school of about 2,700 students offers an intimate learning environment for its 30 undergraduate degree programs, 10 special concentrations and seven pre-professional programs in a variety of subjects. Tuition for the 2011-12 academic year was $27,680, not including expenses such as books, supplies and room and board. Luzerne County Community College, LCCC, is a public, two-year institution located southwest over the river from Kingston by way of US Route 11. LCCC has a 2012 undergraduate student body of 7,225 and provides students a list of 100-plus academic programs to choose from. Tuition cost for district residents was reported at an affordable $3,150. Another public college in the Kingston area is Pennsylvania State University - Wilkes-Barre, where students can begin their path to more than 160 undergraduate majors offered by the Penn State University System at an in-state tuition cost of less than $13,000. Kingston economyJob sectors with the highest employment rates in the Kingston area are sales, transportation and office work, which total to about 38 percent of total regional employment. Large-scale employers in the area include Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Northeastern Pennsylvania, which each employ more than 1,000 area residents. Kraft Foods, Verizon Wireless and CVS Caremark also provide jobs in this riverfront community. Author: Justin Boyle
Justin Boyle is a freelance writer living in Austin, Texas. Sources: Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA • Mar 01, 2012 • http://www.bls.gov/ • http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_42540.htm • Bureau of Labor Statistics Colleges & Programs • http://www.kings.edu/ • http://www.kings.edu/academics/colleges_and_programs • King's College 10 Great Reasons to Attend LCCC • http://www.luzerne.edu/ • http://www.luzerne.edu/about/reasons.jsp • Luzerne County Community College Kingston Borough • http://kingstonpa.org/ • http://kingstonpa.org/ • Kingston Borough Search for Schools, Colleges and Libraries • http://www.nces.ed.gov/ • http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/index.asp?search=1&State=PA&city=&zipcode=18704&miles=10&itemname=&sortby=name&College=1&Status=Search+Finished&Records=0&CS=C48ED32C • National Center for Education Statistics Largest Employers • http://wilkes-barre.org/ • http://wilkes-barre.org/pages/dobusiness/statistics/largestemploy.html • Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry 2010 Population Finder • http://www.census.gov/ • http://www.census.gov/popfinder/?s=42 • US Census Bureau Pennsylvania Area Career and Technical Training Programs:
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Fortis Institute - Forty Fort
Are you ready to take the next step toward realizing your career dreams? Fortis Institute can help you get there. At Fortis Institute, we pride ourselves on providing a quality postsecondary career education to students through a range of degree and diploma programs in high-demand fields such as Medical Assisting, Medical Billing and Coding, Dental Assistant, and Medical Business & Clinical Specialist. We offer a change-oriented educational approach that focuses on helping students develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that they'll need to succeed in existing and emerging careers. For our graduates, we also provide job placement assistance through our Career Services Center.
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