Ventura College is an accredited two-year institution that was founded in 1925. It has a 112-acre campus and an enrollment of 14,500 students. Ventura College offers associate degrees in 33 majors and certificates of completion and proficiency in 61 areas of study. Career and technical education programs include such areas as agriculture, automotive, construction technology, criminal justice, drafting, emergency medical technology, manufacturing technology, nursing science, paramedic, water science and welding.
The Santa Barbara College campus in Ventura, which opened in 2003, is an accredited institution that offers computer and medical labs and a learning resource center. Santa Barbara College was founded in 1888 as a California business college and institute that trained teachers, adding many other areas of study as time went by. Programs offered at the Ventura campus are business administration, criminal justice, medical assisting, medical office administration, office administration and paralegal studies.
Oxnard College is in the city of Oxnard, 10 miles south of Ventura. Oxnard College, an accredited two-year institution that was founded in 1975, has an enrollment of 8,000 students and is located on a 118-acre campus. The college offers associate degrees, certificates of achievement and certificates of completion, with career and technical programs that include accounting, air conditioning/heating/refrigeration, auto body, auto tech, child development, culinary arts/restaurant management, dental assisting, dental hygiene, emergency medical technician, fire technology, legal assisting/paralegal and office occupations preparation.
ITT Technical Institute has more than 100 campuses across the United States, including a location in Oxnard. ITT Educational Services Inc., which is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, was founded in 1969 and serves more than 80,000 students nationwide. The Oxnard campus offers several degree programs, grouped under six separate areas of study: information technology, electronics technology, drafting and design, business, criminal justice and health sciences.