Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
Average Annual Cost
The average annual net price that a student who receives federal financial aid pays to cover expenses (e.g. tuition, living expenses, etc.) to attend the school's largest program. Net price is the program's cost of attendance minus any grants and scholarships received. For public schools, this is only the average cost for in-state students. Negative cost values indicate that the average grant/scholarship aid exceeded the cost of attendance.
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Healthcare Programs
About Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is one of 16 individual colleges which together comprise the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Maintaining four of its own campus locations, ECTC primarily services Breckinridge, Bulitt, Green, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Taylor, and Washington counties in Kentucky.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College offers the following healthcare-related courses:
Medical Information Technology
The Medical Information Technology program prepares graduates to work in a medical setting as an administrative assistant. You will be required to take core of medical information technology courses, technical electives related to medical information technology, and general education courses. You then apply the skills you acquire in an internship usually taken in your last semester.
Nurse Aide
ECTC's Nurse Aide training program is approved by the Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services for the training of nursing assistants for long-term care. This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills for nurse aides to assume the role and responsibility required in long-term care. The focus in this course is on communication, infection control, safety, resident's rights, and basic nursing skills. The course consists of lecture, skills lab, and at least 16 hours of supervised clinical training in a long-term care facility. Students receive 3 college credit hours for the 75 clock-hour course. Weekday, evening, and Saturday classes are available throughout the year.
Recent news about Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
The donated equipment includes a portable X-ray machine and a C-arm machine, which radiography students usually do not have access to until clinical rotations, giving ECTC students a leg up in the field.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College has received a Plant for the Planet grant through KU and LG&E to plant more trees on its campus.
The Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship can now be used to take the Human Services program at ECTC, giving students even more options.
Up to $100,000 will be matched by the Central Kentucky Community Foundation to help fund ECTC’s campaign to create housing for student parents and their families.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is offering three introductory classes at its Meade County Center. The classes are one night a week and are nearly three hours long per session.
The robotics team made up of students from Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and Northern Kentucky University attended the Vex Robotics World Championship competition in Dallas, Texas, where they won second in their division and fourth in the world.
The BlueOval SK Battery Park facility will be used to train around 5,000 employees in building electric vehicle batteries with the help of Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and Elizabethtown-Hardin County Industrial Foundation have formed a partnership to invest $140,000 to support the workforce needs of Kentucky.
The U.S. Department of Education will fund a new program at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College aimed at helping 60 high schoolers a year find post-high school education and jobs.
Computer Aided Drafting and Design student Brandon Life is pursuing a degree at ECTC thanks in part to a scholarship from All Within My Hands, a non-profit organization established by the band Metallica and their managers.
The National Science Foundation grant will allow ECTC to grow its Advanced Manufacturing Army Career Skills Program to include robotics and automation certification and fund the new position of Career Skills Program Coordinator.
The Tanya "The Game Changer" Seabrooks Scholarship will support women attending ECTC with preference given to residents of Radcliff, KY.