Portland Community College Rankings by Salary Score™

I would not recommend PCC for a choice of education. My education is paid for by my employer and I chose PCC due to its association with my employer. I took math classes. In my first class I was being graded on English formatting not the math. I was pulling a D- consistently and then I looked up the professor reviews and found 2 stars for the professor with many complaining about the same things. My first advisor was not able to properly advise STEM students. He then eventually emailed me that he was no longer... Read More my advisor and someone else would be assigned who I never heard from. I dropped the math class and took the same class later with a different teacher and hardly passed with a C. For the other classes I took I consistently found the course work was outdated and not relevant. I took a geography class referring to countries and events that have changed like the status of Ukraine. Assignments in English writing and math were all focused on articles that were outdated and made before covid. Many discussions surrounded covid entirely and were not even relevant anymore with facts and stats that are no longer true. It seems this college setup online learning for covid then stopped updating classes. The math booth they use is a textbook made by the faculty and there are large gaps in what is being asked of you compared to the textbook given information. Also each math program uses a program that is made by PCC to do homework practice sheets and the majority of your time will be spent doing practice sheets that are a large part of your grade but are not spent teaching you. The actual teaching time is limited there are no lectures live and it is all pre recorded. I found myself having to use outside resources and videos many times. I ended up transferring to a university and because PCC is 4 terms a year. None of my credits transferred to by university that does semesters. Do your research. Don't go to this school.

PCC offers free tuition for senior citizens under the Senior Audit program, but they make it virtually impossible to get into the program. Their teachers do not understand the program and require multiple contacts before they respond to emails. You can not be registered until the first day of class. Some courses are core classes that do do qualify for audit, but there is no notification of this. I think they have the program so they can “virtue signal” and then try to make it inaccessible due to costs. All... Read More in all, PCC does a terrible job regarding seniors and the disabled.