Preparing an educated workforce is central to the mission of Bellingham Technical College. Today's workforce requires complex technical competencies as well as academic skills, positive work attitudes and habits, effective human relations, leadership, problem solving, critical thinking and teamwork skills.

Bellingham Technical College strives to provide students with the competencies necessary to gain employment, to continue to learn, to be productive on the job, and to be contributing members of the workplace and the community.

Bellingham Technical College helps students achieve these skills and competencies in many ways. Consistent with our vocational technical history, BTC believes that the content is most meaningful when learned and practiced in context of the occupation and job expectations. To accomplish our mission and goals, BTC students are required to satisfy occupational program course requirements and related instruction requirements for occupational program degree and certificate completion and graduation