Located near Roosevelt Park, Central New Mexico Community College is the largest community college in the city, offering adult education and associate's degrees in fields from applied technologies to math and engineering. The school offers both on-campus and distance learning, as well as on-campus jobs for qualifying students.
Just a few miles from downtown in Albuquerque's eastern neighborhoods, Brookline is a small community college specializing in trade training and associate's degrees. Its program offers tracks in health care, business and legal studies, offering specialized associate's degrees in fields such as physical therapy, pharmacy, nursing, accounting, public administration and paralegal studies.
Brown Mackie College maintains a network of 26 community colleges throughout the country, including a location in the Mesa Village neighborhood of Albuquerque, just south of I-40. Featuring both bachelor's and associate's programs, Brown Mackie College specializes in career-focused education. In addition to vocational training in health care and business, the school offers associate's degree programs in veterinary science.
Carrington College is another small community college whose curricular focus is health care vocational training. Located near the junction of I-40 and I-25, the school features a fitness training and massage therapy center, an online library database and a nursing resource center. Each of the training centers is furnished with equipment specific to the given vocation, affording students hands-on training for preparation in their fields.