The California Community Colleges System is one of the three education systems that make up the California public higher education system. With 112 campuses and 2.9 million students, California Community Colleges System is the largest higher education system in the world. Each year, colleges of the community college system graduate thousands of students in all areas of vocational studies, including nursing, education, criminal justice, mechanics and construction.
City College of San Francisco
City College of San Francisco is a two-year community college. It is the largest community college in California, with over 100,000 enrolled students and a faculty of over 1,000 instructors. Academic disciplines offered by the college include business, cinema, nursing, women's studies, photography and more. City College of San Francisco also has a distance learning program, in which students can earn a degree through online classes, hybrid courses or telecourses.
Barstow Community College
Barstow Community College has been educating California residents since 1959. The school has an academic faculty of approximately 100 instructors and a student body of 5,000. The college is distinguished as operating the largest online program among the California Community Colleges System, with programs concentrating in business, biology, English and child development. Traditional campus degrees include associate degrees in humanities, social science, natural science and physical education.
Orange Coast College
Orange Coast College is a two-year college in Costa Mesa. Two theme parks are located within 30 minutes of the college, Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm. Admission to the school is managed through open enrollment and the student body is comprised of more than 25,000 students. Orange Coast College offers associate degree programs in accounting, computer information systems, agriculture, construction and child development. The college operates an on-site child development center.
College of the Redwoods
College of the Redwoods is a two-year community college located in Eureka, California. As its name suggest, the college is situated in the coastal forest of Humboldt Hill. Coast Redwood trees provide a natural contrast to the modern school buildings that make up the college campus. The school employs approximately 100 full-time instructors and has a student body of about 6,700 students. In addition to its main campus in Eureka, College of the Redwoods also operates two satellite campuses in Crescent City, California and Fort Bragg, California. Each year, the college awards associate degrees and certificates in journalism, history, languages, drama, political science and more.
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