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Northwestern Michigan College, also known as NMC to local residents, is a community college, established in 1951, in Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Its annual enrollment is around 3,400 students. This 2-year college offers associate's degrees. NMC also has a university center, by which students may take 4-year degrees through other universities without having to leave Traverse City. During the 1980's and 1990's, NMC had branch facilities in Cadillac.

NMC's Great Lakes Campus, also showing the Great Lakes Maritime Academy's teaching vessel State of Michigan.

NMC is home to the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, one of six State Maritime Academies that receives aid from the federal Maritime Administration¹. As NMC is located on the shores of Grand Traverse Bay, a long protected water of Lake Michigan, Great Lakes Maritime Academy is the only U.S. Maritime Academy on fresh water. Additionally, NMC has a branch campus at Cherry Capital Airport, and it is one of only a few community colleges to have an aviation program. NMC also has an observatory and a technical center, both of which are located outside of the city, and a nursing program at Munson Medical Center. The campus is home to WNMC, a volunteer-operated radio station affiliated with the college, which broadcasts at 90.7 FM.

NMC offers Associate in Applied Science degrees in the following fields:

• Aviation
• Business
• Communications
• Culinary Arts
• Health Occupations
• Humanities
• M-TEC: Michigan Technical Education Center
• Maritime (GLMA)
• Physical Education
• Science/Math
• Social Science

In addition, NMC also offers a liberal arts Associate in Science & Arts degree, designed for students who plan to transfer to a four-year college.

1. A division of NMC, Great Lakes Maritime Academy is also a partner of Ferris State University. Ferris grants an Academy graduate a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (maritime concentration), while NMC simultaneously grants an Associate's Degree in Maritime Technology. Academy enrollees who have already received a Bachelor’s Degree may choose not to complete the four-year Business Administration Degree, if they so desire.

• NMC Website
• Great Lakes Maritime Academy website

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