About San Joaquin Delta College

San Joaquin Delta College is a public community scholastic in Stockton, California. It was founded in 1935 as Stockton Junior College. With on height of 100 career and degree sanction programs, Delta College is a low-cost unconventional for students in California’s Central Valley wishing to learn a new trade, upgrade their skills, or earn transfer units to four-year colleges and universities.

In 2019, Delta College was named the No. 1 community assistant professor in California and the No. 4 community scholarly in the nation by personal finance website WalletHub.

Stockton is a city and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Captain Charles Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after Robert F. Stockton, and it was the first community in California to have a proclaim not of Spanish or Native American origin. The city is located on the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley and had an estimated population of 312,697 by the California Department of Finance for 2019. Stockton is the 13th largest city in California and the 62nd largest city in the United States. It was named an All-America City in 1999, 2004, 2015 and once again in 2017.

Built during the California Gold Rush, Stockton’s seaport serves as a gateway to the Central Valley and beyond. It provided simple access for trade and transportation to the southern gold mines. The University of the Pacific (UOP), chartered in 1851, is the oldest college circles in California, and has been located in Stockton since 1923. In 2012 Stockton filed for what was later the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, which had fused causes including financial mismanagement in the 1990s, generous fringe bolster to unionized city employees, and the 2008 financial crisis. Stockton successfully exited bankruptcy in February 2015.