As reported by Forbes Magazine this week, Kennedy-King College is considered one of the top 10 community colleges in the country, and serves the largest predominantly Black student body on the list compiled by Academic Influence.  Academic Influence used new artificial intelligence techniques to develop its first-ever ranking system naming the best community colleges in the nation. The Academic Influence list ranked two-year colleges that award associate degrees along with a variety of shorter-term certificates. The rankings were derived from an initial list of 839 community colleges in the US that met the following three conditions:

• They were fully accredited

• They enrolled at least 1,000 students

• They primarily provided two-year, associate degree programs (along with certificate credentials in most cases).

Here is the national list:

1. Anne Arundel Community College (Maryland)
2. Roxbury Community College (Massachusetts)
3. Eastern Maine Community College
4. Springfield Technical Community College (Massachusetts)
5. College of Marin (California)
6. Los Angeles City College
7. Lamar Institute of Technology (Texas)
8. Kennedy-King College (Illinois)
9. West Kentucky Community and Technical College
10. Lamar State College – Port Arthur (Texas)