Why LAVC

Top 8 Reasons to Attend LAVC

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1. Find YOUR path to success. Check our Program Mapper tool to help you get started on a Career & Academic Pathway (or major).

2. Classes that fit YOUR schedule. We offer classes in-person, online and hybrid (in-person with online components). Search our class schedule.
3. We care about YOU! We offer student support programs for first-time college students, foster youth, veterans, dreamers/DACA, black/african americans, students who are parents, EOPS, and much more!
4. Make friends & build your community. Find opportunities to meet other students, join a student club, and get involved in student government though our Student Life Office. 
5. We're is a TOP transfer school. Our Transfer Alliance/Honors Program (TAP) students have a 90%+ transfer acceptance rate to top universities.
6. Train for an in-demand career in less than 2 years. Get the skills to succeed in a new career by earning a two-year certificate in one of our offer career technical education programs (such as registered nursing, child development, business, and media arts) or take short-term career courses. We also offer a new bachelor's degree in respiratory therapy.
7. A beautiful park-like campus. Learn in an urban oasis in the heart of the Los Angeles suburb of the San Fernando Valley. Our 105-acre campus filled with trees and fields of grass is the first Tree Campus USA at a California community college.
8. FREE tuition is available!  California-residents pay only $46 per unit (or $130 per unit for upper-division classes). Plus, first-time college students can get up to two years of free tuition through the LA College Promise Program.

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