Why Choose Laurel?

At Laurel, we pride ourselves in not just providing students with a strong foundation to start a career, but with helping them make the connections necessary to bridge between school and work.

Our goal is to provide you with a quality education and to help you develop your talents, skills, and knowledge for a sustainable career in a strong and viable industry. We design each of our programs with this in mind. We get input from employers who meet with our faculty, staff, and administration to improve existing programs and to help create new ones, depending on the how the economy and needs of industry are evolving. This means that the skills and knowledge you gain when you earn an Associate in Specialized Business or an Associate in Specialized Technology degree from Laurel comes directly from the people who do the hiring and who know what qualities make a reliable and valuable employee.

What defines Laurel?

Team Spirit: We dedicate our efforts to make our students time here enjoyable and beneficial. We work as a team to ensure individualized admission and financial aid services, dedicated career services, and welcoming student services.

Quality Education: We pride ourselves on small class sizes allowing for one-on-one instruction because we have an interest in each student's success. We make sure to keep our curriculum up to date to the most in-demand skills needed in each career option, making sure we keep our labs up to date with current technology in order to give the best skill based instruction.

Family Environment: Our friendly staff is always ready to help and loves being able to see the students grow and succeed! We love getting to know our students and make sure they are getting what they need in their educational journey with us.

Career Services

As a student at Laurel, you have access to our Career Services, where you will receive guidance on internships, help with your job search, and stay up to date on part-time employment and work study opportunities. Our Career Services staff is here to help our students and graduates achieve their goals and to help employers meet their staffing requirements. There is never a Career Services fee for students, graduates, or employers. Learn more about our Career Services.

What is Career Services responsible for?

Job Fairs

Internships

On Campus Recruiting

Job Placement Assistance

What resources do we use?

Sending Job Orders

Online Job Searches

Newspaper Job Searches

Professional Networking

Services Offered at No Cost

Interview Coaching

Job Search Strategies

Refresher Classes

No Cost Placement Assistance

Internships

Some of our programs offer internship experiences where you have the opportunity to work and gain the experience and connections that you need to start your career. Career Services coordinates and implements internships for you. To learn more about our internships and to see a list of programs with internships, click here to visit our Internship page.

Apply skills you learn in the classroom to an employment setting, begin to cultivate professional networks and acquire references as you start your career at Laurel.

Why are internships important?

Learn Hands-On Skill

Build and maintain useful skills for your chosen career path

Gain Critical Thinking Skills

Learn to analyze situations related to your career and practice how to resolve them

Gain Experience

Gain invaluable work experience at multiple different in settings to make you more marketable

Experiential Learning

Educators know that a student learns more quickly and retains more information when the subject matter pertains to them personally, and doing makes learning extremely personal. The process of experiential learning involves both self-initiative and self-assessment as well as hands-on activity, so students and teachers alike can benefit from experiential learning opportunities in the classroom. Students may tune out lectures if they think the material doesn’t pertain to the real world. Experiential learning takes data and concepts and applies them to hands-on tasks, yielding real results. As the student interacts with the information, it becomes real to them. Experiential learning also involves trial by error. As students engage in hands-on tasks, they find that some approaches work better than others. They discard the methods that don’t work, but the act of trying something and then abandoning it actually becomes a valuable part of the learning process. Learn how Laurel incorporates Experiential Learning in to our program here! >

Reasons Experiential Learning is Important

Opportunity for Creativity

Experiential learning is one of the best ways to teach creative problem-solving!

Reflecting on Experience

Reflecting allows you to engage more regions of the brain and make stronger connections with the material!

Accelerate Learning

Experiential Learning uses critical thinking, problem solving and decision making to accelerate learning and skills.

Laurel ASSIST is designed to help the transition from any situation to be easy and understandable. We are dedicated to providing affected workers or someone seeking further education with opportunities to obtain the skills, credentials, resources, and the support necessary to build new skills for future jobs. Laurel is here to help you get back on track with your career training after taking some time off from your education. This program was built with real life people in mind that need new opportunities to get back on track! Laurel takes pride in helping you get started, helping you get through it and the opportunity for continual Career Services available to alumni - giving you the support you need after completion of your program. We take pride in allowing you to opportunity to come back and request assistance, should you need it!

Ask us how we can assist you, email [email protected] to get more information from one of our Admission agents!