Maps and Directions

Decoding Room Numbers

Example room number: CC1255A NSCC room numbers follow a standard pattern and can be used to locate any room on campus. Knowing the following pattern may help you find your room faster.

The Pattern

  1. Room numbers may have an optional building prefix. If the room number begins with 2 or 3 letters, that's the abbreviation of the building in which the room is located.
  2. The first number is the level or floor on which the room is located. If the first number is a 0, that room is located on the zero-level (below the first floor). The Education building, for example, has classrooms on the zero-level.
  3. The second number is the avenue. Avenues run north–south along the exterior east- and west-sides of the campus buildings. Avenues are numbered 1 – 8 beginning on the west side of the campus. The following map grapic depicts the avenues in blue as bold horizontal lines running left to right with their names listed to the right.
  4. The next two (third and fourth) numbers are the room number. Room numbers start at the north-end of campus and get larger going south. Approximate room number guides are depicted as bold red lines running top to bottom in the following map graphic with numbers listed near the top.
  5. Rooms may also have an optional interior room suffix of one or more letters at the end. The suffix designates that room as an interior-room that is located between avenues and accessed via a corridor inside the building, rather than an exterior door. For example, most faculty and staff offices are interior rooms.
Graphic: 3D Perspective map of NSCC campus

Decoding Example

As an example, CC1255A is on the first level of the College Center Building along Second Avenue. Since it's room 55, it is almost in the center of the west-wing of College Center at the south end of the campus. It also has a room suffix A, indicating it has an interior door.

Building Abbreviations

AS
Arts and Sciences Building
CC
College Center Building
CH
Childcare Center
ED
Dr. Peter C Ku Education Building
HT
High Tech Learning Center (former name for the Education Building, see ED above)
IB
Instruction Building
LB
Library Building
PE
Physical Education Building (former name for the Wellness Center, see WC below)
TB
Technology Building
WC
Wellness Center
Photo: students boarding a bus to campus