Recent News

OCTC Nursing Program Deadline for Applications

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program is currently accepting applications for students that will begin the program in August 2022. The ADN program prepares graduates to sit for the NCLEX-RN examination ...

Jan 25, 2022, 1:11pm EST

OCTC Fall 2021 President's List

The Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) President's List recognizes the academic excellence of full-time students in Fall 2020 earning all A grades in at least 12 hours of course work numbered 100 or above. The following students, listed by...

Jan 20, 2022, 2:43pm EST

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OCTC Dean's List Fall 2021

The Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) Dean's List recognizes the academic excellence of students in Fall 2021 who earned at least a 3.5 grade point average (GPA) while successfully completing 12 hours or more of course work numbered 100 or...

Jan 20, 2022, 2:42pm EST

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Hosted By OCTC

Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) will be hosting an in person and remote "Unity in the Community" event in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day on Monday, January 17, 2022. The event will be split into two parts to allow for the outdoor...

Jan 11, 2022, 8:00am EST

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OCTC Saturday Hours for Registration

Owensboro Community & Technical College is open for registration this Saturday, January 8, from 9 a.m. -12 p.m. on the main campus in the Campus Center. Many students will be able to apply and register on the same day. The OCTC Bookstore, also located ...

Jan 5, 2022, 2:06pm EST

OCTC's Common Reading Selection "Next Door to the Dead"

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is continuing the campus wide Common Reading program and invites the community to participate in all the related events. The book for the Spring 2022 semester is Next Door to the Dead, a book of poems by ...

Dec 28, 2021, 8:00am EST

OCTC Graduates & Program Awards

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) holds an in-person alternative walk-through commencement ceremony to honor graduates from the summer '21 and fall '21 semesters on December 16th, 2021. OCTC is pleased to award 1,142 credentials to 389 stu...

Dec 17, 2021, 7:00am EST

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OCTC Holiday Closing

Campuses Reopen Jan. 4, 2022 Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) will be closed December 18 - January 3 for the holiday break. OCTC will reopen on Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 8 a.m. During the institutional closing, interested students m...

Dec 16, 2021, 8:00am EST

OCTC Hosting Alternative Commencement Cermony December 16

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is celebrating summer and fall 2021 graduates with an alternative walk-through ceremony on OCTC's Main Campus located at 4800 New Hartford Road on Thursday, December 16, 2021. The college is set to award 1...

Dec 8, 2021, 8:00am EST

OCTC's ELC Impacting the Community Through Student Projects

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Experiential Learning Center (ELC) sponsors service learning projects. Dr. Meredith Skaggs' COM 181 students participated in a project entitled "The $100 Solution". The task was for the seven teams of st...

Dec 2, 2021, 8:00am EST

About Owensboro Community and Technical College

Owensboro Community & Technical College is a public, two-year, open admissions college accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is one of the sixteen colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS). The college values innovation, is focused on student learning, and is responsive to economic trends.  

Most OCTC students are from the counties of Daviess, Ohio, Hancock and McLean in Kentucky, but many others travel from elsewhere in Kentucky and southern Indiana. 

These Merit pages are used to celebrate the successes of our students and will serve them as an online portfolio of achievements.