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Seventy acres of Summerlin West were set aside for schools and 250 acres for public facilities. Summerlin offers its residents more educational choices than any other community in Las Vegas with eight private schools and nine public schools.
Thousands of new residents, hundreds of new homes and dozens of new communities all add up to one thing, an ongoing need for schools and teachers. Today the Clark County School District ranks as the sixth-largest school district in the United States. To keep pace, the district´s building program provides approximately $3.5 billion to construct 88 new schools through 2008, while improving every area school already in existence. These numbers are indicative of the commitment made to education by southern Nevada politicians, voters, educators and the private sector.
International Academy Design & Technology - (IADT) - Is a design technology school accredited to award Associate of Science and Bachelor of Fine Arts Degrees. Las Vegas´ new campus offers a full list of classes.
University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) - Is a premier urban university with more than 40 years of community service and is in the midst of a 10 year campus-wide planning effort. New university buildings include a five-story, $55 million library. In 1998, UNLV joined the ranks of only 165 Universities in America offering a law school and a new school of dentistry is now under construction.
The student body now stands at over 20,000 with over 4,000 graduate students. UNLV offers more than 148 undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs in its eight colleges. UNLV is nationally recognized for its Hotel Management, Criminal Justice and Social Work Programs. Other programs of note are the university´s Business, Real Estate, Computer Science, Arts, and Recreation, Architecture and Construction Management disciplines.
Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) - Is one of the biggest and one of the best community colleges in the country. Three campus locations serve over 26,000 students in 17 different fields. Among the top disciplines at CCSN are dental hygiene (#2 in the country), culinary arts (#3 in the country), computing and information technologies, resorts and gaming, nursing and other health professions, automotive technology, air conditioning and criminal justice. Huge expansion plans are already underway for CCSN. Improvements include new facilities and new state-of-the-art equipment. | |
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