Weatherford College is at 225 College Park Drive, Weatherford, Texas 76086. The school's main phone numbers are 817-594-5471 and 800-287-5471. The college's two extension campuses are in Decatur and Mineral Wells, Texas. Students also take classes at the nearby 300-acre agricultural center and college farm.
Approximately 62 percent of the college's 10,000 annually enrolled students are female. Texas residents make up 98 percent of the student body, and the average age of a Weatherford College student, as of January 2011, is 23. Average yearly tuition for the 2010 to 2011 school year is $1,870.
Weatherford College offers associate in arts and associate in science degrees. Courses for these 27 degrees are designed so they will transfer to four-year universities if students want to pursue bachelor's degrees. Weatherford's associate in applied science degrees offer vocational competency in 17 fields, including medical, criminal, technology, animal, emergency and accounting, among others. The college also offers certificates of completion in 24 specialties, including substance abuse counseling, customer service, and gaming design and programming.
The Weatherford, Texas, motto is "Growing with Tradition," and the city is known as the "Cutting Horse Capital of the World." A big attraction is the city's historic shopping area, which hosts speciality, boutique and antique stores. Other attractions include a farmers market, First Monday Trade Days, Clark Gardens Botanical Park, Chandor Gardens, Museum of The Americas, a driving tour to view historic homes---including the home where Larry Hagman, star of "Dallas," grew up---and the newly restored Parker County Courthouse.