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Montgomery College is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County,...

Montgomery College is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. in the United States. The college has three campuses, the largest of which is in Rockville; the other campuses are in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and Germantown. Off-campus sites include the Business Training Center in Gaithersburg and Westfield South in Wheaton, which are operated by the college's Workforce Development and Continuing Education division. Montgomery College has an enrollment of nearly 60,000 credit and noncredit students. Of the Montgomery County Public School graduates who choose to stay in Maryland for college, 60% attend Montgomery College within the following academic year. The school is noted as being one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in the nation, with students from over 170 countries enrolled. The college also employs more than 1,500 faculty members. The college was organized in 1946 as "Montgomery Junior College," with its campus located at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. In 1950, the college moved to Takoma Park, Maryland, absorbing the Bliss Electrical School, which had occupied the site. The Rockville