About Taft College

Taft College is a public community scholarly in Taft, California. It is a share of the California Community Colleges system and is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The moot is one of on your own a few community colleges in California to have on-campus housing.

The intellectual was founded in 1922 as Taft Junior College. Initially it was allowance of the Taft Union High School District next classes held on the campus of Taft High School. The literary switched to its current declare in 1954 and opened its own cut off campus neighboring the tall school in 1956.

The hypothetical offers Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees as without difficulty as a variety of certificates. Graduates who fixed specified programs are prepared for transfer to the California State University or University of California systems.

Taft (formerly Moron, Moro, and Siding Number Two) is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California. Taft is located 32 miles (51 km) west-southwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 955 feet (291 m). The population was 9,327 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.1 square miles (39.1 km2).

It was named for President William H. Taft in 1909.