Peer Institutions
Green River College (GRC) chose its state peer collleges from the other 33 community and technical colleges in Washington State. The peers were selected based on their relative size, demographics, and service area. The 8 peer colleges selected were Bellevue College, Clark College, Everett Community College, Highline College, Pierce College, Renton Technical College, Tacoma Community College, and Whatcom Community College.
GRC is still in the process of selecting its regional and national peer colleges. The regional schools will be selected from Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) accreddited institutions using similar criteria to that which was used to select the state peer colleges. The current national peer college list and the corresponding comparison data shared below were provided by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) in GRC's 2023 Data Feedback Report.
This practice is consistent with the NWCCU Standard 1.B.2.