About Valencia College

Valencia College is a public teacher in Orlando, Florida. It was founded in 1967 as Valencia Junior College, taking the name Valencia Community College in 1971. In December 2010, Valencia’s Board of Trustees voted to fiddle with the proclaim to Valencia College because the academic scope of the researcher had expanded to count up bachelor’s degrees. Valencia has several campus locations in Orlando with additional campus locations in Winter Park and Kissimmee.

Orlando (/ɔːrˈlændoʊ/) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county chair of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the middle of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in July 2017, making it the 23rd-largest metropolitan Place in the United States, the sixth-largest metropolitan Place in the Southern United States, and the third-largest metropolitan area in Florida. As of 2019, Orlando had an estimated city-proper population of 287,442, making it the 71st-largest city in the United States, the fourth-largest city in Florida, and the state’s largest inland city.

The City of Orlando is nicknamed “the City Beautiful”, and its symbol is the Linton E. Allen Memorial Fountain, commonly referred to as conveniently the “Lake Eola fountain” at Lake Eola Park. The Orlando International Airport (MCO) is the 13th-busiest airport in the United States and the 29th-busiest in the world.

Orlando is one of the most-visited cities in the world primarily driven by tourism, major events, and convention traffic; in 2018, the city drew on pinnacle of 75 million visitors. The two largest and most internationally renowned tourist attractions in the Orlando Place are the Walt Disney World Resort, opened by the Walt Disney Company in 1971, and located just about 21 miles (34 km) southwest of downtown Orlando in Bay Lake; and the Universal Orlando Resort, opened in 1990 as a major fee of Universal Studios Florida and the lonesome theme park inside Orlando city limits.

With the exception of the theme parks, most major cultural sites like the Orlando Museum of Art and Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and world well-known nightlife, bars and clubs are located in Downtown Orlando while most attractions are located along International Drive next the Wheel at ICON Park Orlando. The city is next one of the busiest American cities for conferences and conventions; the Orange County Convention Center is the second-largest convention capacity in the United States.

Like new major cities in the Sun Belt, Orlando grew immediately from the 1970s into the first decade of the 21st century. Orlando is house to the University of Central Florida, which is the largest university circles campus in the United States in terms of enrollment as of 2015. In 2010, Orlando was listed as a “Gamma +” level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.