About Miller-Motte College

Location

Accreditation

Miller-Motte College is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS)
Licensed by the North Carolina Community College System
Approved by the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina

Our History

Judge Leon Motte founded the school in 1916 in Wilmington, North Carolina. The school provided the Wilmington legal community with a small training center for courtroom stenographers. Following Judge Motte's death, his wife expanded the curriculum to include secretarial studies and thereby created Motte's Secretarial School.

In 1954, Mr. Homer Miller, a business educator from Virginia, purchased the school providing local employers with secretarial, business administration, accounting, and general office graduates. In 1979, Richard and Sharon Craig acquired the school and relocated it to South College Road across the street from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In 1987, a branch college was opened in Clarksville, Tennessee. Due to expansion, a new facility was built, and in 1989, the College moved to its current location at 1820 Business Park Drive. In 1989, the Clarksville Campus applied for, and was granted, stand-alone accreditation through the Association of Independent Colleges and Schools. During this time, the Clarksville Campus was re-designated as the main campus, and the Wilmington Campus became a branch campus.

In 1998, the stock of Miller-Motte Business College, Inc. was purchased by Delta Educational Systems, Inc., a Virginia Corporation approved to conduct business in North Carolina. In November 2000, Miller-Motte Business College changed its name to Miller-Motte Technical College. The Charleston Branch of Miller-Motte Technical College was opened in December 2000. In October of 2003, to accommodate the growing student population, the Wilmington Campus moved to 5000 Market Street. In 2006 Miller-Motte Technical College changed it name to Miller-Motte College

During the past 20 years, the college has added several key programs that have served the needs of the business and health care community and provided even better employment opportunities for its graduates. Recent additions to the curriculum have included Bachelor of Science programs, Nail Technology, Esthetics, Cosmetology, Criminal Justice, and Paralegal. Miller-Motte College is in a continual process of reviewing, assessing, and revising its curriculum in order to keep pace with improvements in technology and the increasing needs of business and industry.

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