Education
— CONTRA COSTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
The Contra Costa Community College District is one of the largest multicollege community-college districts in California, annually serving almost 62,000 students. The district consists of Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College with campuses in Pleasant Hill and San Ramon, Los Medanos College and the LMC Brentwood Center.

— FOOTHILL–DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Foothill–De Anza Community College District (www.fhda.edu) provides access to a dynamic learning environment that fosters excellence, opportunity and innovation in meeting the diverse educational and career goals of our students and communities. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the district serves parts of Santa Clara County at its three campuses—De Anza in Cupertino and Foothill College, with campuses in Los Altos Hills and Palo Alto.

— NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE
Napa Valley College is located in the beautiful wine country of northern California. The main campus overlooks the Napa River in the heart of the famous wine-producing region and is home to the Napa Valley Vintners’ Teaching Winery. The college also has the Upper Valley Campus in St. Helena, which features an instructional learning lab, a culinary arts center and a Native American Dedication Garden.

— OHLONE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
The Ohlone Community College District (www.ohlone.edu) is a multicampus single-community college district located in the southern portion of the Bay Area. Serving almost 17,000 students per year, the district has a main campus in Fremont and a new campus in Newark that emphasizes programs in health, environment, and technology.

— PERALTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
The Peralta Community College District (www.peralta.edu) comprises four campuses serving northern Alameda County. Peralta Colleges provide accessible, high-quality adult-learning opportunities to meet the educational needs of the multicultural East Bay community. The campuses include Berkeley City College, College of Alameda and two in Oakland—Laney College and Merritt College.

— SAN JOSE/EVERGREEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
The San José/Evergreen Community College District (www.sjeccd.edu) provides access to comprehensive and flexible postsecondary academic and occupational programs for Silicon Valley residents. The district offers lower-division transfer and general education, two-year college degrees and certificates, distance-learning opportunities, targeted career training and more. The two colleges, San José City College and Evergreen Valley College, serve around 20,000 students per semester.

— SAN MATEO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGES DISTRICT
San Mateo County Community Colleges District (www.smccd.edu) is a three-college district between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The colleges—Cañada College in Redwood City, Skyline College in San Bruno and the College of San Mateo—serve more than 45,000 students each year and offer the first two years of instruction for transfer programs as well as more than 90 vocational-technical programs in which students can earn either an associates of arts or science or receive certificates of proficiency in their chosen fields.

— WEST VALLEY-MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
West Valley-Mission Community College District (www.wvm.edu) offers two colleges—West Valley College in Saratoga and Mission College in Santa Clara—which are on the cutting edge among higher education institutions in Silicon Valley. Every semester more than 20,000 students enroll at the colleges and thousands more take online, off-campus or noncredit courses and seminars that are offered.

— Solano Community College
Solano Community College (www.solano.edu) serves the communities of Benicia, Dixon, Fairfield, Suisun, Vacaville, Vallejo and Winters as well as Travis Air Force Base. With the current student population of 11,000, flexible scheduling includes day, evening and Saturday classes, held on- and off-campus at its four campus locations and via the Internet, television, home study and travel study.

— Santa Rosa Junior College District
The Santa Rosa Junior College District (www.santarosa.edu) in Sonoma County is one of the largest single college districts in the country, serving approximately 36,000 students each semester within a 1,600-square-mile service region that is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Santa Rosa Junior College offers comprehensive transfer preparatory and career training programs at dozens of sites, including two beautiful campuses in Petaluma and Santa Rosa north of San Francisco.

   
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