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| Overall Score On StateUniversity.com (about) | 55.8 |
| Total CostOn-Campus Attendance | $2,376 |
| AdmissionSuccess rate | N/A |
| Student RatioRatio of students to faculty | 24 : 1 |
| Retention(Full-Time / Part-Time) | 68% / 38% |
| EnrollmentTotal (all students) | 8,316 |
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Contra Costa College is located in San Pablo, California. It is part of the Contra Costa Community College District. There are three college systems within the state of California and Contra Costa College functions as part of the community colleges system. The college was founded in 1950 with a temporary location in Richmond, CA in the Kaiser Shipyards. The current campus on Mission Bell Drive in downtown San Pablo opened in 1957.
Contra Costa College is divided into a variety of departments that enhance student learning and provide the overall support needed to excel in the workplace. Programs for adults and continuing education programs, which includes those leading toward associate’s degrees, are perfect for people who lead busy lifestyles.
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Contra Costa College offers students the benefits of dedicated personal service, including time management workshops given in the library, to ensure that they are developing into community-serving adults.
Contra Costa College offers many notable programs. The first of these includes the Center for Science Excellence. This center functions to increase the participation in the field of science for all minorities. The second notable program at Contra Costa College is the High-Performance Computing Center. This is a center with a pioneering program whose focus is teaching computer clustering. The third notable program at Contra Costa College is the Advocate. This is a weekly newspaper for the college, nationally honored. The paper has won over eleven National Newspaper Pacemaker Awards since the year 1990. The college also has one the top Speech and Debate Teams in the nation.
Contra Costa College offers many partial and full scholarships, the amount of which are determined by the financial aid department. These scholarships may be based on financial need as well as merit, though the majority of the scholarships given to students are based upon need.
Students attending Contra Costa College must fill out the FASFA prior to attendance. This is an online financial aid form which includes a list of your potential colleges alongside an evaluation of your financial situation. It is the results of this statement which determine the amount of financial aid available. Students must fill out the FAFSA each year and sign it prior to the month of March. They can begin in January and if income taxes have not been filed, they can use the estimates from the previous year. Students who are still dependents of their families must use the financial information from their parents when filling out this form online in order to determine their financial living environment.
Along with the FASFA, students attending Contra Costa College must fill out a separate financial aid application for the school in order to qualify for the list of school-based scholarships available. There are also unique community and group scholarships given to people in the area attending Contra Costa College, for which separate information is available through the financial aid department. Separate applications must be filled out for these scholarships as well. These applications include a shorter version of your financial background as well as information about your qualifications.
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This college understands the needs of students to enjoy balance in the college setting. Meeting new friends, seeing old ones, and being immersed in the social scene is very exciting, especially if it’s the first time you have lived on your own, far away from your family.
Contra Costa College offers an enriching student environment which caters to exploring new cultures, friends, foods, and academics while ensuring that each student becomes a positively contributing member of society and learns the utmost responsibility.
The college skills center provides a tutoring area, conference room and computers and offers individualized attention in reading and writing. Student life is mapped by a variety of programs to include social and cultural activities and leadership development.
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In order to aid the community, Contra Costa College offers a home to a Middle College High School which is a program that integrates high school and college courses for the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
The DSPS (Disabled Students Programs and Services) is in place to provide support and specialized instruction to students with disabilities, ensuring that they are equally subject to the college experience. The academic services offered by DSPS are educational planning, sign language interpreters/closed captioning, testing accommodations, specialized instruction designed for students with learning disabilities, van mobility assistance on campus, and adaptive computer technology, just to name a few.
For international students, the college offers travel procedures, visa information, housing information and procedures and employment procedures.
| Surrounding community | Large suburb (inside urban area but outside city, pop. over 250,000) | ||||
| Total Population | 55,719 (55,716 urban / 3 rural) | ||||
| Households | 17,536 (3.10 people per house) | ||||
| Median Household Income | $43,649 | ||||
| Families | 12,399 (3.69 people per family) | ||||
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San Pablo, CA 94806-3195
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