I do not go to NLC but yeah it is certainly ONLY A MYTH that all the people who go to NLC are those who care more about money and less about study. Yes, there may be some who go the wrong way but the majority are there just to get education which they can afford and not neccessarily bad. Most of the people who study at NLC easily get transferred to UTA (which BTW is a very good University for Engineering),  with scholarships if they have maintained a healthy GPA.

As atomic says, getting credits from NLC is no different from those credits from Community Colleges in other Metropolitan Cities.