About Fresno City College

Fresno City College (FCC or “Fresno City”) is a public community scholastic in Fresno, California. It is allowance of the State Center Community College District within the California Community Colleges system. Fresno City College operates upon a semester schedule, offering join degrees and certificates.

The school’s sister colleges in the State Center District are Reedley College, in Reedley, California, and Clovis Community College (formerly known as the Willow International Center) in northeastern Fresno (near the adjoining city of Clovis. Additional campuses in the district swell the Madera Center (across the San Joaquin River, in the city of Madera) and the Oakhurst Center, in the town of Oakhurst (serving the Sierra foothill communities).

Fresno (Spanish for ‘ash tree’) is a city in and the county chair of Fresno County, California, United States. It covers more or less 112 square miles (290 km2) in the center of the San Joaquin Valley, the southern ration of California’s Central Valley.

Named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Fresno was founded in 1872 as a railway station of the Central Pacific Railroad past it was incorporated in 1885. The city has in the past become an economic hub of Fresno County and the San Joaquin Valley, with much of the surrounding areas in the Metropolitan Fresno region predominantly tied to large-scale agricultural production.

The population of Fresno grew from 134,000 in 1960 to 428,000 in 2000. With a census-estimated 2020 population of 542,012, Fresno is the fifth-most populous city in California, the most populous inland city in California, and the 34th-most populous city in the nation.

Fresno is close the geographical center of California. It lies nearly 220 miles (350 km) north of Los Angeles, 170 miles (270 km) south of the permit capital, Sacramento, and 185 miles (300 km) southeast of San Francisco. Yosemite National Park is more or less 60 miles (100 km) to the north, Kings Canyon National Park is 60 miles (100 km) to the east, and Sequoia National Park is 75 miles (120 km) to the southeast.