BELLEVUE COLLEGE
3000 Landerholm Circle SE • Bellevue, WA 98007 • www.bellevuecollege.edu
President: Dr. David Rule, 425-564-2301, dave.rule@bellevuecollege.edu
Trustees: Steve Miller, chair; Lisa Chin, Richard Fukutaki, Merisa Heu-Weller,
Ross Hunter, David Kook (student trustee)
KEY FACTS (Data from 2014-2015 academic year unless otherwise noted)
Year Founded: 1966
Service Area: Bellevue, Issaquah,
Mercer Island, Skykomish, Snoqualmie
Legislative Districts: 5, 39, 41, 45, 48
Programs: 6 bachelor of applied
science, 1 bachelor of applied arts,
1 Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 75
associate degree programs and 68
certificates available.
Highest Enrolled Programs:
• Multiple disciplines for transfer to
four-year institutions
• Business and Accounting
• Computer Science/Information
Technology
• Engineering
• Interior Design
Enrollment:
Headcount (all sources)
FTES (all sources)
Headcount (state-funded)
FTES (state-funded)
31,458
12,339
18,140
8,244
Students in Selected Programs
(Headcount):
Applied Bachelor’s Degree
312
I-BEST
55
International Students
1,881
Running Start
1,913
Worker Retraining
462
STUDENT PROFILE — STATE FUNDED
Enrollment by course intent
Attendance
22+67+65 59+41
5%
pre-college
6%
basic skills
22%
workforce
education
41%
full-time
59%
part-time
67%
academic/
transfer
Ethnicity:*
Asian/Pacific Islander
25%
African American
6%
Native American
1%
Hispanic
13%
Other, Multiracial
3%
White/Caucasian54%
Gender:
Female
Male
56%
44%
Median Age:24
Family and Finances:
Students receiving
need-based financial aid in
eligible programs
20%
Students who work
54%
Students with children
18%
* May not add up to 100% because
students may be counted in more
than one race.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Bachelor’s Degree Bellevue College has just added two new applied bachelor’s degrees: Applied Accounting and Molecular
Options Growing Biosciences (accepting students in fall 2016). They join applied bachelor’s degrees in Data Analytics, Radiation
and Imaging Sciences, Healthcare Technology and Management, Information Systems and Technology, Nursing
(RN-BSN) and Interior Design. In development is a new bachelor of science in computer science, expected to
launch during the 2016-17 academic year, addressing the growing and often unmet industry demand for more
computer science graduates.
A Leader in Health In July 2015, Bellevue College was awarded a $966,436 grant to help develop health care IT curriculum
Data Analytics for educators in Washington and around the nation, and to help train 1,000 U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs medical staff in health care data analytics. Bellevue College will partner with Columbia University,
Johns Hopkins, Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Texas, the Stanford University Open
Learning Institute and several other institutions to expand the national health IT curriculum, e-learning
resources and best practices. The grant was awarded from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
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Celebrating 50 Years Innovation is a hallmark of Bellevue College, demonstrated by its leadership in the movement to offer
of Innovation and bachelor’s degrees, commitment to STEM education, and trailblazing Occupational Life Skills and Autism
Forward Thinking Spectrum Navigator programs. As the college celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016, the institution looks to
the future, opening its new Health Sciences building in August and beginning construction in 2017 on its first
student housing. Bellevue College has the highest enrollment in the Washington community and technical
college system and provides the largest number of students who transfer to the University of Washington to
complete their bachelor’s degrees.