Academics
At Barton, you can achieve your educational and career goals in no time! Barton offers transfer programs designed to easily transfer to a four year college and many career program options to put you on a faster track to employment.
Barton Expands to
Fort Leonard Wood
Flexible Live Online and Barton Online courses give military-connected students options designed to fit military, work and family life.
Serving Those Who Serve:
Build Your Career in Federal HR
Designed for transitioning servicemembers, military spouses, and civilian learners, Barton's Federal Human Resources program equips you with the skills to step directly into federal HR roles!

Program Highlight:
Scales Tech
Barton’s Scale Technician Certificate Program equips students with the essential technical skills needed to enter the weights and measures industry—a field with growing demand and career stability.
Events
College News
Barton Community College faculty, staff, and students invite ghosts and goblins of all ages to celebrate the creative side of Halloween for free with the “Haunting on the Hill 6” event from 2-4 p.m. Oct. 24 in and around the Fine Arts Building.
Barton alum and Larned native Kindric Castro landed a job at USD 428 as the Assistant Network and Google Workspace Administrator before he’d earned his Network Security Specialist certificate due to the skills he had gained within the curriculum.
The Barton Community College Instrumental Music Department will present its free “Celestial Sounds” fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Fine Arts Auditorium.
Barton Community College Plumbing Instructor Jeff Meyer was recently recognized as a 2026 Western Region Skilled Trades Instructor Honoree at the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Kansas Skilled Trades Instructor Conference.
Barton Community College’s Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Future Health Professionals chapter has been awarded $2,000 through the Kansas HOSA Rural Chapter Grant Program as part of the Rural Health Transformation Plan.
Barton Community College is expanding its commitment to serving military-connected students by offering Live Online and Barton Online courses to students at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.