Opened in 1995, Lone Star College-Montgomery is a 365,000-square-foot comprehensive college on 210 acres of pine forest between The Woodlands and Conroe. Part of the fast-growing Lone Star College System, LSC-Montgomery enrolled more than 14,411 credit students for the Fall 2016 semester. Additionally, more than 4,000 students take continuing education courses annually.
Lone Star College-Montgomery completed a significant campus expansion in the last few years. Three new buildings were built on the campus at College Park Drive, as well as a new LSC-Conroe Center campus off FM 3083 in Conroe. The college added a new 75,000-square-foot academic classroom building; a 60,000-square-foot health science center; a 20,000-square foot arts instructional building; and a 1,000-space parking garage to handle growth on the main campus.
The college offers 40 career programs plus academic transfer courses in a variety of subjects. Programs include criminal justice, physical therapist assistant, biotechnology, nursing, human services, computer information technology, management, radiologic technologist, audio visual systems specialist, land surveyor/mapping technology, and fire science. Weekend College provides more options for those seeking to take one or more classes Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays. A comprehensive range of transfer, vocational, and remedial programs–including art, music, science, history, and government–is also available. A continuing education division provides workforce and customized corporate training via Lone Star Corporate College. LSC-Montgomery also offers summer youth camps and a year-round robust learning organization for active, older adults—the Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL). Just footsteps away is the Lone Star College-University Center at Montgomery, which offers bachelor’s, master’s and specialized degrees from several area universities in a variety of majors.