If you were a student at Seattle Vocational Institute or another District College and paid "qualified tuition and fees" during 2011, your family may be eligible for tax credits. To find out if you qualify, follow this link: 1098-T Education Tax Credit.

Pre-qualify for Funding
The Seattle Community Colleges offer free or reduced tuition, books and fees to hundreds of students every quarter. We want you to get the skills and education you need to begin your career at a livable wage. Click here to find out if you pre-qualify for funding and to begin the enrollment process.



Apply Online
You can submit your Application for Admission to the colleges to which you want to apply by going to the Web Admissions Center. Application is fast and easy.

You may also apply to SVI on a walk-in basis. Please review the Admissions Process on the Admissions Page to learn how to conveniently apply in person.

Seattle Community Colleges students and staff members can sign up to receive text message and email alerts in case of a campus emergency or unplanned closure. The Seattle Community Colleges Alerts system will make a best effort to send messages if there is an emergency that causes the campus to close unexpectedly or if there is an incident that may pose a safety concern for the community.

Go to the SCC Campus Alerts page and sign up using your College SID and PIN to designate a cell phone number (for text message alerts) or the email address you'd like to use to receive alerts. You may use more than one number or email address. Alerts to staff members will go to the college email by default, and others can be added.

The Seattle Community Colleges are public, state-supported institutions, individually accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities,* an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education. Seattle Vocational Institute is accredited jointly with Seattle Central Community College.

*Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
(NWCCU)
8060 165 th Avenue NE, Suite 100
Redmond, WA 98052

The Student Achievement Initiative is a new performance funding system for community and technical colleges that represents a shift from funding entirely for enrollment inputs to also funding meaningful outcomes.

The initiative is intended to:

Improve public accountability by more accurately describing what students achieve from attending our colleges each year.

Provide financial incentives to colleges for increasing the levels of achievement attained by their students.

Please click here to open the Washington State Quality Assurance Student Achievement Comparison for SVI in PDF.