Columbia Basin College

Columbia Basin College (CBC) is a public community college serving the Tri-Cities and surrounding communities since 1955. CBC’s mission is to inspire, educate, and support all students in an environment of academic excellence leading to the completion of degrees, certifications, and educational transfers, while fostering meaningful employment, engaged citizenship, and a life-long joy of learning. CBC offers both two and four-year degrees and one-year Certificates. Bachelor of Applied Science degrees are offered in Applied Management, Applied Management in Agriculture or Healthcare Administration, Cyber Security, Dental Hygiene, Information Technology, and Project Management. CBC also offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Columbia Basin College inspires, educates, and supports all students in an environment of academic excellence leading to the completion of degrees, certifications, and educational transfers, while fostering meaningful employment, engaged citizenship, and a life-long joy of learning. Columbia Basin College will be the educational home that transforms students’ lives through economic and social mobility and strengthens the communities we serve through meeting the ever changing educational needs of our region and state.

Our first priority is to work collaboratively to ensure student learning, success, and completion in an environment of open inquiry, respect, critical thinking, and creativity. We strive to create community and belonging where students mature and develop intellectually, emotionally, ethically, and physically both inside and outside of the classroom. We provide excellent teaching and services through a theory-driven and data-informed culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous improvement of performance, and a commitment to professional growth and development for all employees.

We celebrate diversity in all its forms and we believe that our many unique perspectives makes us stronger. Diversity among our team enriches our institution and our students’ experience. We are dedicated to eliminating barriers to success through intentional and equitable efforts to provide quality learning opportunities.

We consciously practice and model broad-based sustainability for our students, and our communities, through the balancing of economic, societal, and environmental factors when considering campus development of facilities, processes, programs, and curricula. We create a healthy environment that encourages physical and emotional wellness and enjoyment of learning.

As a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution, we received federal funds to construct the new Math Center to aid all students with their math studies. With a $3 million donation from Kadlec Regional Medical Center, we opened the CBC Wortman Medical Science Center in Richland to support CBC health science programs and provide a residency for medical students with a working medical clinic. For the future, CBC is partnering with the Port of Kennewick and the City of Kennewick to construct a culinary institute to go with the city’s wine village project.