About San Diego City College

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San Diego City College (City College or City) is a public community researcher in San Diego, California. It is allocation of the San Diego Community College District and the California Community College System. San Diego City College is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC).

City College is located in Downtown San Diego. The 60-acre (24 ha) campus consists of 40 buildings, and is against Balboa Park, the I-5 freeway and San Diego High School. Courses are provided in general education, lower-division transfer programs, and occupational and developmental education.

San Diego (/ˌsæn diˈeɪɡoʊ/, Spanish: [san ˈdjeɣo]; Spanish for ‘Saint Didacus’) is a city in the U.S. state of California upon the coast of the Pacific Ocean and immediately adjacent to the United States–Mexico border. With an estimated population of 1,423,851 as of July 1, 2019, San Diego is the eighth most populous city in the United States and second most populous in California (after Los Angeles). The city is the county seat of San Diego County, the fifth most populous county in the United States, with 3,338,330 estimated residents as of 2019. The city is known for its smooth year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches and parks, long attachment with the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology onslaught center.

Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego is frequently referred to as the “Birthplace of California”, as it was the first site visited and approved by Europeans upon what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the Place for Spain, forming the basis for the treaty of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European treaty in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became portion of the newly avowed Mexican Empire, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. California became portion of the United States in 1848 gone the Mexican–American War and was admitted to the bond as a come clean in 1850.

San Diego’s main economic engines are military and defense-related activities, tourism, international trade, research, and manufacturing. The city is the economic center of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second most populous transborder metropolitan area in the western hemisphere (after Detroit–Windsor), home to an estimated 4,922,723 people as of 2012. The primary border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, the San Ysidro Port of Entry, is the busiest international house border crossing in the world external of Asia (fourth-busiest overall). The city’s primary airport, San Diego International Airport, is the busiest single-runway airstrip in the world.