Victor Valley College is a graduate public institution in the southeast corner of Victorville, California. It is a part of the California junior college system. The Victor Valley junior college district includes Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley, Phelan, and Adelanto.
The college was created by a vote of the general public in 1960 and therefore the first classes were held in 1961 at Victor Valley highschool in an unused building. On14th of February 2012, Victor Valley junior college District opened its first satellite campus in Apple Valley called the Regional Public Safety Training Center just northwest of the Apple Valley County Airport (nicknamed the Eastside Center within the Five-Year Plan.)
The new center contains 46,000 sq. ft. of classrooms, conference rooms, laboratories, and lecture halls. Directly outside the center, a prop area called "CERT City" (named after County of San Bernardino Community Emergency Response Team) has large vehicles, a hazard tower, and disaster areas for simulated exercises. Construction on the II satellite campus, the "Westside" Workforce Development Center (WDC) in West Hesperia remains within the planning stages with hopes to finish the project before 2020 and will be used for research purposes.
The college provides nearly 40 major courses of study, with the foremost popular being humanistic discipline, Registered Nursing, and Business Management. As a junior college, VVC awards associate degrees.
Thirty-three of these programs offers Associate Degrees in either Associate of Arts (A.A.) or Associates of Science (A.S.), along with California's Associates Transfer Degree (AA-T or AS-T) which guarantees admission to either Cal State University or University of California campuses that participate in the program. Offices are also present on-site from universities in partnership with VVC to allow distance education coursework in a handful of majors that provide students with bachelor's degrees.
There are also Certificates of Achievement or Certificates of Participation for 128 Vocational subjects including Administration of Justice, Fire Technology, Construction, Computer Networking and Repair, and Medical/Nursing.
VVC Accreditation
The institution is accredited and is recognized by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior Colleges and University Commissions (WASC)