Programs leading to the Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science include a distribution of General Education courses in the categories of:

1. Communications (courses enhancing facility in the English Language);
2. Mathematics and Science (courses enhancing mathematical and scientific conceptual understanding and application, including knowledge of computers);
3. Social Sciences (courses enhancing social awareness, including social, economic, and political problems, and the responsibilities of citizenship in an interdependent world);
4. Humanities (courses in literary, philosophical, foreign language, historic, aesthetic, or other humanistic studies enhancing understanding and transmitting values of one's own culture as well as other cultures).

The General Education requirements vary according to the degree program. A.A. Programs require 45 general education credits; A.S. Programs require 30; A.A.S. Programs require 20. No more than 16 hours in one discipline (e.g., English, Chemistry, Psychology, History) may be counted toward the general education requirement for each degree.

Certificate Programs require 6, preferably 9, General Education/credit hours including one Communications course. Diploma Programs require 10 General Education credit hours.