Santa Monica College, California

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Santa Monica College, or SMC, is a public community college located in Santa Monica, California. The college was originally founded in 1929 as the Santa Monica Junior College. It enrolls more than 25,000 students in over 90 fields of study. SMC is ranked number one among California's community colleges in transfers to the University of California, University of Southern California, and Loyola Marymount University.

Santa Monica College offers a variety of occupational certificate programs in fields which include accounting, fashion design, office information systems, and entertainment technology. It is the home of KCRW (89.9 FM), a leading public radio station in the US.

Santa Monica College fields more than 15 sports, and competes in the Western State Conference. The mascot for SMC is Pico the Corsair, and the sports teams are known as the Corsairs.

Profile of Santa Monica College

The main campus of Santa Monica College is in Santa Monica, CA (a small city). The school is a public school. Santa Monica College offers degrees up to the Associate's degree.

Course Topics

The school tends to concentrate its instruction in a few key disciplines. Santa Monica College students most commonly major in a field related to science, design, art studies, and liberal arts.

Santa Monica College Selectivity

The school admits all qualified candidates under its open-admission policy.

Faculty

Santa Monica College offers tenure to reward and retain some professors. Salaries for full-time faculty at the school are higher than most, allowing the school to afford quality teaching.

Student Enrollment

In 2007, Santa Monica College had 28,958 enrolled students. The school has a larger minority student population than most schools.

Santa Monica College Tuition and Affordability

Santa Monica College offers comparatively low-priced tuition.

Santa Monica College Programs and Degrees

General Category	Degrees	Most Common Majors
Liberal Arts	966	liberal arts and sciences, speech and rhetoric, women's studies
Business and Management	155	business management, accounting, international business, sales and marketing, sales, small business management
Design	141	graphic design, interior design, fashion design
Science	118	biological and physical sciences
Family and Social Work	75	child development
Nursing and Emergency Medicine	71	registered nursing
Art Studies	34	art studies
Photography and Commercial Art	30	commercial photography, film studies
office and Administration	15	data entry, administrative assistant, office management
Computer Science and Engineering	15	computer programming, computer support, computer science, information technology, webmastering, database administration, web design, computer networking
Beauty and Cosmetology	13	cosmetology
Media	10	radio and television, journalism, animation and special effects, digital communications, desktop publishing and imaging
Construction Trades	10	apparel and textile marketing
Drama and Performing Arts	10	drama, dance
Music	4	music
Nutrition and Exercise Therapy	3	health and physical education
Medical Support and Technology	2	respiratory care tech
Law	0	legal secretary
Medical Adminstration	0	medical secretary
Education and Teaching	0	early childhood special ed

Contact: Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College
1900 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90405-1628
General Phone: (310) 434-4000
http://www.smc.edu