Academics
At Barton, you can achieve your educational and career goals in no time! Barton offers transfer programs designed to easily transfer to a four year college and many career program options to put you on a faster track to employment.
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Current Kansas high school students can save money on Barton classes with tuition rates ($50 per credit hour) or scholarship rates ($75 per credit hour)!
Serving Those Who Serve:
Build Your Career in Federal HR
Designed for transitioning servicemembers, military spouses, and civilian learners, Barton's Federal Human Resources program equips you with the skills to step directly into federal HR roles!
Program Highlight:
Scales Tech
Barton’s Scale Technician Certificate Program equips students with the essential technical skills needed to enter the weights and measures industry—a field with growing demand and career stability.
Events
College News
Barton Community College and the Center for Adult Education will be closed, and there will be no classes in observance of Labor Day on Sept. 7. Offices will reopen, and classes will resume on Sept. 8.
The Barton Community College Library will team up with the English department and Barton’s literary annual “Prairie Ink” staff to host a Writers’ Workshop from 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 in the Cavanaugh Room of the Learning Resource Center and via Zoom at https://bartonccc-edu.zoom.us/my/brownj.
The Shafer Art Gallery at Barton Community College will host a free reception for its annual “Friends and Acquaintances” exhibition from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 11, celebrating the work of Kansas artists featured in the exhibition, which runs through Oct. 30.
Barton Community College Instructor of Keyboard Studies and Director of Accompaniment Dr. Alejandro Avila has officially taken on the role of president-elect of the Kansas Music Teachers Association (KMTA), a statewide leadership position that will lead to him becoming president of the organization in September 2027.
The Barton Dance Department will host auditions for its upcoming “Nutcracker for the Golden Belt” production from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 29 in Studio 34 on the Barton Campus.
Barton Community College’s Center for Adult Education is holding orientation days Sept. 14-17 with multiple times available in preparation for its next nine-week session of high school diploma classes, which will start Sept. 21 and 22, depending on which class sessions are signed up for.
