Gateway Community College
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Gateway Community College is a public
Public university
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community college
Community college
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located in Connecticut
Connecticut
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. The college maintains two campuses: one in New Haven
New Haven, Connecticut
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(Long Wharf
Long Wharf (New Haven)
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campus) and one in North Haven
North Haven, Connecticut
North Haven is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut on the outskirts of New Haven, Connecticut.North Haven is less than ten miles from downtown New Haven and Yale University. It is near Sleeping Giant State Park and home the Quinnipiac University School of Health Sciences, the School of Nursing,...
. As of February 17, 2010, Gateway had the 1st highest credit enrollment among Connecticut's community colleges, with 6987 students enrolled in for-credit classes. It was formed in 1992 by the merger of South Central Community College in New Haven and the Greater New Haven State Technical College in North Haven.
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National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium
This Community College is a NAFTC's Training Center.History
Gateway Community College was formed on July 1, 1992 from the consolidation of twoother secondary institutions. The former South Central Community College (at Long Wharf) combined resources with the former Greater New Haven State Technical College in North Haven.