Type | Private for-profit technical college |
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Established | 1961 |
Dean | Jean Gonzalez, BA, MA |
Location | , , United States 33°47′18″N117°52′26″W / 33.788383501893975°N 117.87383386389182°W |
Campus | Urban |
Website | www.southcoastcollege.edu |
South Coast College is a private for-profit technical college in Orange, California. It offers certificates for career preparation in court reporting and medical assistant careers and a paralegal Associate of Arts degree. It is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges [1] and approved by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the state of California, for court reporting, paralegal, and medical assistant programs. [2]
H. S. Whitley founded the Stenotype School of Long Beach in 1961 as its director-owner. [3] A private college, it relocated to Westminster and was renamed Whitley College of Court Reporting. [4] [5] Whitley College merged again, in 1980, with Orange County College of Court Reporting and was re-named South Coast College. The college relocated to Anaheim in 1993 and, in 2001, to its facility in the city of Orange. [4]
South Coast College offers certificates in court reporting [6] and medical assisting, [7] as well as a paralegal Associate of Arts degree. [8] The court reporting program is approved by the National Court Reporters Association. [9]