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Pasadena City College

Pasadena City College has been named one of the ten finalists for the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence for three years running. Widely recognized as the nation’s premier honor for high achievement and performance in America’s community colleges, PCC is world-renowned for its quality of education and extensive range of general education, transfer, certificate, and Associate degree programs. PCC ranks #1 in the state for transfers to local universities and meets a variety of educational need with more than 60 academic and 70 career & technical programs.

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Large community college

Why you should attend?

Pasadena City College is one of the nation’s leaders in serving military connected students and veterans. Our dynamic approach focuses on the comprehensive veteran- our extensive range of services incorporates all the facets of holistic care for veterans. We coordinate access to a wide variety of service providers to address the unique needs of our veterans. We have a full-service Veterans’ Resource Center, Veterans’ Collaborative which centers around our Boots to Books program; taught the longest in the nation. PCC enthusiastically participates in the White House 8 Keys to Success initiative, and we are a Veteran Success on Campus school. We have partnered with US Vets, Outside the Wire, Los Angeles County Veterans Peer Access Network (VPAN), two local Veteran Centers to provide access to mental health services and countless community partners to provide an abundance of supports.