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California community colleges
California community colleges
San Francisco's City College is only one of 116 California Community Colleges, and it is FREE to San Francisco residents. You can find community colleges across America as well.
How we help you navigate registration: In the spring semester of senior year, every SFUSD school has FRISCO day when CCSF (City College of San Francisco) partners with SFUSD coordinators to assist with registration as a freshman.
What is a Community College? Two-year institution, but some students attend as long as they want. Again, in San Francisco it is FREE for residents. However, if you drop a class after the drop deadline, you can be charged a fee, upwards to $200+.
Associate degrees: The most common degree offered, which usually takes two years to complete
Certificates: Can be earned in one year or less
Technical diplomas: Can lead to careers in a variety of fields
Remedial education: Can help students prepare for college-level coursework
GEDs and high school diplomas: Can help students earn a high school diploma or GED
Get that 'going away' feeling by attending an out-of-town City College: Many Community Colleges have options for housing such as Santa Rosa Junior College and Santa Barbara City College.
transfer admission guarantee
transfer admission guarantee
TAG Program: Transfer Admission Guarantee. This is a great way to reduce the cost of a college degree in half. Spend two years (or how ever long it takes to earn 60 units) at a Community College, and then transfer to a UC or CSU. TAG is a program that guarantees admission to certain colleges and universities for students from California Community Colleges such as UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Santa Cruz.
Requirements: Students write a TAG agreement; they must complete 60 transferable units (for either the California State University (CSU) or University of California (UC)), have completed major prerequisites, and have a Grade Point Average (GPA) of a 3.4 (higher GPA required for some majors and colleges)
Junior college
Junior college
A "junior college" and a "community college" are essentially the same thing, referring to a two-year post-secondary institution offering associate degrees, with the key difference being that "community college" is more commonly used to describe a public institution while "junior college" can sometimes refer to private institutions as well; in most contexts, they are interchangeable.
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