In Southern California, most two-year community institutes in the CCCS are in three areas: greater Los Angeles, greater San Diego and the Inland Empire.
Greater Los Angeles community colleges are in Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange counties. These colleges include Glendale Community College (glendale.edu), Los Angeles City College (lacitycollege.edu), Cypress College (cypresscollege.edu), El Camino College (elcamino.edu), Saddleback College (saddleback.edu) and Moorpark College (moorparkcollege.edu).
Community colleges near San Diego are Southwestern College (swccd.edu), Grossmont College (grossmont.edu), San Diego City College (sdcity.edu) and Cuyamaca College (cuyamaca.edu).
Mount San Jacinto Community College (msjc.edu) and Riverside Community College (rcc.edu) are two of Inland Empire's two-year colleges.
Also referred to as California's "Mid-State" region, the center of the state has three major cities with community colleges: Salinas, Fresno and Bakersfield. Hartnell College (hartnell.edu) is the only community college in Salinas, while Bakersfield is home to Bakersfield College (bakersfieldcollege.edu). Fresno features Fresno City College (fresnocitycollege.edu) and State Center Community College (scccd.edu), while Madera Community College (maderacenter.com) and Reedley College (reedleycollege.edu) are within 30 minutes of Fresno. Other centrally located two-year schools are West Hills Community College (westhillscollege.com) in Coalinga, Cerro Coso Community College (cerrocoso.edu) in Mammoth Lakes, and Cuesta College (cuesta.edu) in San Luis Obispo.
The San Francisco Bay Area features three major urban regions: San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland. Of the three, San Jose is the largest city.
San Francisco is home to the City College of San Francisco (ccsf.edu). San Jose's two-year institutes are San Jose City College (sjcc.edu) and Evergreen Valley College (evc.edu). Oakland offers classes at the College of Alameda (alameda.peralta.edu) and Laney Community College (laney.peralta.edu). Other Bay Area community colleges include Diablo Valley College (dvc.edu) in Pleasant Hill, Mission College (missioncollege.org) in Santa Clara, and Chabot College (chabotcollege.edu) in Hayward.
Northern California is generally considered the region of the state north of the San Joaquin Valley and the largest city not in the Bay Area is Sacramento, the state capital. Most of Northern California's community colleges are in these two regions. Sacramento's two-year schools are MTI College (mticollege.edu), Los Rios Community College (losrios.edu), American River College (arc.losrios.edu) and Sacramento City College (scc.losrios.edu). Northern California's community colleges outside of Sacramento are Yuba City College (yccd.edu/yuba) in Yuba City, Shasta College (shastacollege.edu) in Redding, and College of the Redwoods (redwoods.edu) in Eureka.