Title: Great work of California Community Colleges
1Irvine Valley College offers 59 associate degree
majors and 32 career and technical certificate
programs.
2Students can save about 40,000 by
attending Irvine Valley College the first two
years.
3Community college transfers earn GPAs equal or
better than students who started out at UC or CSU.
4That Irvine Valley Colleges transfer rate is 1
in Orange County and 3 in California.
5California Community Colleges are the largest
provider of workforce training in the United
States.
6California Community College graduates who earn a
degree or certificate will have increased annual
earnings by 63 or 18,630 in 3 years.
7For every dollar spent on California Community
Colleges the state economy receives a 3 return
on investment.
880 of our students work and the average
amount worked is 32 hours a week.
9Statewide 52 of our degree seeking students earn
a degree, certificate, or transfer in 6 years.
10We now serve 2.6 million students up from 2.5
million in the last 3 years.
11One quarter of all community college students in
the country are enrolled in Californias
community college.
122/3 of all CSU graduates and 1/3 of all UC
graduates began their college years at a
community college.
13That California Community Colleges transferred
97,600 more students than last year.
14California Community Colleges awarded 105,710
degrees and certificates last year.
1521,000 California veterans 16,000 attend
Community College.
16Community Colleges Serve
CCCS . . . . . . . . . CSU . . . . . . . . . .
. . UC . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2,620,000 331,563 159,066