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Big Sandy Community and Technical College

community college in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, U.S.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4906269 ↗
Source-derived summary

Big Sandy Community and Technical College (BSCTC) is a public community college with its headquarters in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. It was created in 2003 from the consolidation of Prestonsburg Community College and Mayo Technical College. BSCTC maintains four campus locations: Prestonsburg Campus (formerly Prestonsburg Community College) in Prestonsburg; Mayo Campus (formerly Mayo Technical College) in Paintsville; Pikeville Campus in Pikeville; and Hager Hill Campus in Hager Hill. Big Sandy Community and Technical College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

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The public source identifies “Big Sandy Community and Technical College” as community college in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, U.S. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sandy, Community and Technical.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sandy, Community and Technical providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Big Sandy Community and Technical College” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.