Willowbrook Career and Technical Education Department continues to offer students dual-credit courses to earn college credit for free

As you sign up for classes next fall, don’t forget about Willowbrook’s dual-credit courses for students.

Those classes are provided to students at no extra cost, and the credits they earn can be transferred to most colleges/universities in Illinois, as well as many out-of-state colleges/universities. Below is a list of dual-credit courses offered at Willowbrook.

Willowbrook dual-credit courses:
* Courses are a semester long, unless otherwise noted.
• Auto upkeep = AUTO 1040 (3 credits)
• Photography 1 = PHOTO 1100 (3 credits)
• Photography 2 = PHOTO 1102 (3 credits)
• Keyboarding = OFTI 1100 (2 credits)
• Accounting 2 = ACCY 1140 (4 credits)
* This is a full-year course.
• Fitness & nutrition = PHYS 1554 (1 credit)
* This is a full-year course.
• College & career technology/computer applications = OFTI 1210 (3 credits)

This semester, 88 percent of the students eligible to take those dual-credit classes enrolled. Sophomores, juniors and seniors can take dual-credit courses.

Those students are receiving a combined $36,000 in free college tuition based on College of DuPage’s (COD) current tuition rate of $146 a credit hour. And based on University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s current rate of $394 a credit hour, those students are getting $96,530 in tuition.

Students can enroll in dual-credit courses for next fall by contacting their counselor before March 1. Willowbrook staff members who teach dual-credit courses must follow hiring guidelines set by COD and are required to apply and be approved as an instructor. The course curriculum and syllabus also must be submitted and approved by COD.

For more information, contact Willowbrook CTE Department Chair Mary Barney at mbarney@dupage88.net or 630-782-2823.