Northern Essex Community College is one of the leading providers of higher education in the United States. Northern Essesx has campuses in Haverhill, Salisbury and Lawrence, Mass. NECC enrolls more than 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students, and offers a wide range of academic programs, including associate, baccalaureate, master's, specialist's, doctoral, and professional degree programs. The college s student services include academic advising center, adult and alternative studies, transition programs, assessment testing, career counseling, tutoring centers, general equivalency diploma preparation and testing, learning accommodations, and academic and course information. Its library houses more than 480,000 bound volumes, periodicals, course books, journals, magazines and microform units. NECC provides a wide variety of academic programs, such as fine arts, engineering technology, neuroscience, nursing, educational studies, and social work. Additionally, it provides more than 15 intercollegiate sports, including men's and women s basketball, cross-country, football, swimming, track and field, wrestling, hockey, soccer, softball, volleyball, and cheerleading.