Los Angeles Pierce College, also known as Pierce College, Pierce, is a two-year community college that serves more than 23,000 students in Woodland Hills, a community within the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles.
The college began with 70 students and 18 faculty members on September 15, 1947. Originally known as the Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture, the institution’s initial focus was crop cultivation and animal husban...
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Los Angeles Pierce College, also known as Pierce College, Pierce, is a two-year community college that serves more than 23,000 students in Woodland Hills, a community within the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles.
The college began with 70 students and 18 faculty members on September 15, 1947. Originally known as the Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture, the institution’s initial focus was crop cultivation and animal husbandry. Nine years later, in 1956, the school was renamed to Los Angeles Pierce College, retaining the name of its founder, Dr. Pierce, as well as his commitment to agricultural and veterinary study. (Pierce still maintains a 225-acre (0.91 km) working farm for hands-on training.)
Pierce College offers courses on more than 100 subjects in 92 academic disciplines, and has transfer alliances with most of the universities in the state. The college boasts enviable transfer rates to UC and CSU schools.
In lieu of transfer, students can pursue any of...
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