About Odessa College

Odessa College is a public junior moot in Odessa, Texas. The intellectual serves the people of Ector County and the Permian Basin. It was expected in 1946 and currently enrolls about 5,000 annually in its university-parallel and occupational/technical courses, and 11,000 students annually in its Basic Education, Continuing Education, and Community Recreation courses.

Odessa /ˌoʊˈdɛsə/ is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States. It is located primarily in Ector County, although a little section of the city extends into Midland County. Odessa’s population was 99,940 at the 2010 census, making it the 28th-most populous city in Texas; estimates as of July 2019 indicate a population of 123,334 in the city. It is the principal city of the Odessa metropolitan statistical area, which includes anything of Ector County. The metropolitan area is then a component of the larger Midland–Odessa mass statistical area, which had a 2010 census population of 278,801; a recent financial credit from the United States Census Bureau estimates that the collective population as of July 2015 is 320,513. In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Odessa as the third-fastest growing little city in the United States. In 1948 Odessa was next the home of First Lady Barbara Bush, and the onetime house of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. Former President George H.W. Bush has been quoted as saying “At Odessa we became Texans and proud of it.”