Technical Career Institutes is an urban, degree-granting college that provides higher education and technical training to men and women.

The mission of TCI is to ...

• provide higher education and advanced training to prepare students for meaningful careers.
• offer degree programs within the context of a well-designed framework of liberal arts and sciences.
• offer degree programs including both theoretical and practical components, as appropriate, to prepare graduates to advance in their chosen careers.
• provide students with the educational foundation for advanced study.
• provide an educational environment that imparts the attitudes and skills that will enable students to continue learning throughout their lives.
• identify needs and issues facing our local community and to provide appropriate academic and no-academic programs to foster positive growth in that community

The purpose of the Administration and the Board of Trustees of Technical Career Institutes is to facilitate the realization of this mission by ...

• establishing and helping the College meet standards of academic excellence commensurate with a regionally accredited institution of higher education.
• ensuring that the College's programs and instruction effectively meet the needs of the surrounding community.
• ensuring that the College provides the support services necessary to allow all students to achieve their goals.
• ensuring that the College is operating on a sound financial basis, and has the resources available to meet its educational objectives