ABOUT GBC
Welcome to Great Basin College!
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
We are GBC!
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Great Basin College is a pioneer in long-distance education and online education delivery. GBC offers a diverse array of certificate and degree programs that are completely online!
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Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
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Student Financial Services
Berg Hall
Great Basin College
Phone: 775-753-2399
MTC Scholarship
GBC Career and Technical Education Program offers the Maintenance Training Cooperative (MTC) Scholarship and is supported by local mines and businesses. In most cases, this scholarship includes an internship. Application for the MTC Scholarship is optional and not required for consideration into the programs. Students can receive $5000 toward a BAS degree in Instrumentation or AAS degree or Certificate of Achievement in the diesel technology, welding technology, industrial plant mechanics or electrical systems programs at GBC. Learn more.
Nevada Promise Scholarship
Beginning with the graduating class of 2018, high school seniors in Nevada may apply for the Nevada Promise Scholarship at GBC, which will provide for up to three years of no cost registration fees and other mandatory fees to eligible students. Learn more.
Graduating Nevada high school students who are eligible for a Millennium Scholarship can visit the Nevada State Treasurer website and view the instructions about activating this scholarship.
To apply for other scholarships, follow the steps below:
Scholarship Tips: Writing Your Personal Statement*
Suggestion for Personal Statement: Video
Note: Your application becomes complete and valid only when you have submitted all the documentation above.
Student Financial Services
Great Basin College
1500 College Parkway
Elko, Nevada 89801
In 2011, the Nevada Legislature unanimously approved, and Governor Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill 220, establishing the Kenny C. Guinn Memorial Millennium Scholarship. The trust fund is used to bestow additional scholarships to four qualified Governor Guinn Millennium Scholars each year, two in northern Nevada and two in southern Nevada, who are majoring in elementary or secondary education with the intent of teaching in Nevada.
The maximum annual award for the selected applicants, to the extent of available funding, will be in the amount of $5,000 each to pay the educational expenses of the recipient for the following school year. Applications for the Memorial Scholarship must be received by 11:59 PM ON April 5, 2021.
View the scholarship application here. View the scholarship flyer here.
Student Financial Services
Berg Hall
Great Basin College
Phone: 775-753-2399
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada’s largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
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