About Parkland College

Parkland is a fully accredited, public community college in Champaign, Illinois.  The College was founded in 1967 and is housed on a 233 acre permanent campus.    

Parkland enrolls approximately 18,000 student annually, although only about a third of our students live and work in the Champaign area.  We have earned a national reputation for excellent academic standards, innovative programs, and quality instruction. 

At Parkland College, student development is our primary concern. Classes are small and are taught by highly qualified, experienced instructors who bring their professional expertise, varied life experiences and backgrounds, as well as the latest teaching concepts into the classroom. Our non-teaching faculty include more than a dozen full-time counselors and librarians.

Parkland is one of the most advanced community colleges in the nation. Our facilities include more than 85 classrooms, 60 specialized labs, a library collection of over 120,000 volumes, an FM radio station, a TV production studio, an experimental agricultural land laboratory, an art gallery, and excellent physical education and recreation facilities, including a fitness center. Our cultural center contains a 320-seat performing arts theater and a 50-foot dome planetarium, the second largest in Illinois. Parkland also has a child development center to serve the needs of faculty, staff, students, and families in our community.