Wasatch Back's first MTECH Campus opening in August
- josephdemma
- Apr 20
- 1 min read
A stone’s throw away from the construction site of the Wasatch County School District’s new
Deer Creek High School, Mountainland Technical College’s first Wasatch Back campus is receiving its final touches.
Construction is about 18 months in. The roughly 98,000-square-foot campus still needs doors and windows installed, as well as cabinetry, flooring, and some drywall, before completion in June. The first day of school is August 17.
The first Mountainland Technical College campus was established in 1989 and offered hands-on courses and apprenticeships in various trades, healthcare professions and service careers. Now, the public community college has five campuses in Utah County. A small selection of courses is also offered at Utah Valley University’s Wasatch Campus and in the Wasatch County, Park City and North and South Summit school districts.
Mountainland Technical College serves Utah, Summit and Wasatch counties, but Vice President Joseph Demma said administrators have long considered the Wasatch Back to be “underserved.”
That began to change when former Wasatch County School District Superintendent Paul Sweat approached college administrators in 2021 with a proposition: The school district would donate 2.5 acres of its land near Deer Creek High School, valued at $900,000, if Mountainland Technical College built a campus on the property.
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