Orange Coast College

CAREER AND PROGRAM CLUSTERS

Orange Coast Career Advantage offers programs within 13 career clusters. Career Clusters are groups of jobs and career paths that are included within the same broad field of work or industry sector.

Orange Coast College is an institution dedicated to transforming lives in our community. We create meaningful opportunities and services for community engagement and lifelong learning in collaboration with our community partners in order to give back and support future students. We invite alumni and local residents to visit us, discover our programs, and stay connected!

FOUNDATION

Orange Coast College Foundation supports the college by encouraging gifts of time, treasure and talent from alumni, campus & community members. There are as many places to give, as there are Ways of Giving. You can tailor your gift to reflect your interest in a campaign or project. You can support the school or college of your choice or make an unrestricted gift to be used at the discretion of the President in the area of greatest need. You can arrange a planned gift to benefit your family and Orange Coast College. You can memorialize a facility or endowment in your name or in the name of a loved one.

ALUMNI

The Orange Coast College Alumni & Friends Association connects alumni to the College, to the community and to one another. You are eligible to join the Alumni and Friends if you ever took a single class at OCC. Membership is a great way to keep in touch with OCC and fellow Pirates. Alumni Association members not only receive great resources, they also support current students through the annual Alumni and Friends Scholarship.

Orange Coast College’s 164-acre campus is located in Costa Mesa just minutes from Southern California’s beautiful beaches. OCC features exceptional facilities and the latest in technology and offers more than 135 academic and career programs, including one of the nation’s largest and most acclaimed public nautical programs. Nearly half the students on campus are enrolled in one of OCC’s Career and Technical Education programs and enrollment averages around 22,000 students each semester.

OCC consistently ranks as one of the top colleges in the state – and the top college in Orange County – for the number of students it transfers to the University of California and California State University systems. Additionally, many OCC students go on to transfer to private colleges and universities within California and across the nation.

Part of the Coast Community College District, OCC offers fall, winter, spring, and summer classes and is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

OUR MISSION

Orange Coast College serves the educational needs of our diverse local and global community. The college empowers students to achieve their educational goals by providing high quality and innovative programs and services leading to academic degrees, college transfers, certificates in career and technical education, basic skills, and workforce development to enable lifelong learning.

The college promotes student learning and development through fostering a respectful, supportive, participatory, and equitable campus climate of student engagement and academic inquiry.