San Mateo Colleges - Canada College
4200 Farm Hill Boulevard, Redwood City, California, USA | Public University | Established 1968
About us
Cañada College is a community college located in Redwood City, California between the vibrant city of San Francisco and the high-tech city of San Jose. The College offers associate degree programs in a wide range of majors that allow students to transfer to 4-year universities including within the University of California, California State University system, and other California and out-of-state private universities.
Cañada College serves approximately 6,500 students each semester and has modern classrooms and science labs. Our Associate to Bachelor Program, Career Center, Learning Center, Library, STEM Center, and University Center provides additional academic support to all students including peer-tutoring and workshops on improving study skills and academic writing. Students are highly encouraged to meet with an academic counselor through the Counseling Center and Transfer Center every semester, to ensure successful completion and transfer. Our small community provides a friendly and student-centered learning environment.
Why Cañada College
For nearly 50 years, Cañada College has provided enriching and life-changing educational opportunities for the residents of San Mateo County. With the support and guidance from award-winning faculty and staff, students can pursue certificates and degrees for career training or to serve as a transfer gateway to four-year colleges and universities.
Here at Cañada, you will have the opportunity to choose from hundreds of day, evening, and weekend courses in more than 40 quality instructional programs, including sciences, business, multi-media, medical assisting, the arts, and technical training. The College also provides extensive basic skills training and innovative student support services in counseling, orientation, certificate and degree planning, transfer assistance, and tutoring.
Cañada College provides our community with a learning-centered environment, ensuring that students from diverse backgrounds have the opportunity to achieve their educational goals by providing transfer, career/technical, and basic skills programs, and lifelong learning. The college cultivates in its students the ability to think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, reason quantitatively to make analytical judgments, and understand and appreciate different points of view within a diverse community.
Cañada College is committed to being a preeminent institution of learning, renowned for its quality of academic life, its diverse culture and practice of personal support and development, extraordinary student success, and its dynamic, innovative programs that prepare students for the university, the modern workplace, and the global community. Our values include:
- Transforming Lives
- High Academic Standards
- Diverse and Inclusive Environment
- Student Success in Achieving Educational Goals
- Community, Education, and Industry Partnerships
- Communication and Collaboration
- Engaging Student Life
- Accountability
- Sustainability
- Transparency
At Cañada College our goals and strategic directions are:
- Teaching and learning - equip students with the knowledge and transferable skills so they can become productive citizens in our global community; provide clear pathways for students to achieve educational goals; invest in opportunities to promote engagement; conduct provocative professional development; and create innovative and flexible learning systems.
- Completion - commit to student completion of certificates, degrees, and transfer; and create pathways which support the success, retention and persistence of students in their educational goals.
- Community Connections - to build and strengthen collaborative relationships and partnerships that support the needs of, reflect and enrich our diverse and vibrant local community.
- Global and Sustainable - promote shared responsibility for our environment and social justice; and create a diverse and culturally enriched community of global citizens.
Courses
FilterFees
| Courses | Duration | 1st Year Tuition Fees |
|---|---|---|
| Associate of Science - Accounting | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Anthropology (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Allied Health | 2 Year | - |
| Associate of Science - Biological Sciences | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Communication Studies (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Computer Business Office Technology - Administrative Assistant | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Computer Business Office Technology - Administrative Support Assistant | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate in Science - Early Childhood Education - Child Development | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - English (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Geography (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - History | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate in Science - Human Services | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies - Arts and Humanities | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies - Natural Science and Mathematics | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies - Social and Behavioural Sciences | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Latin American and Latino/a Studies | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Medical Assisting | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Paralegal | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Philosophy (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Chemistry | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Physics (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Political Science (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Psychology (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Radiologic Technology | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Social Science - International Studies | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Sociology (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Spanish (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Music | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - 3D Animation & Videogame Art | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate in Arts - Multimedia Art & Technology | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Kinesiology (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Dance | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Interior Design | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Fashion Design and Merchandising - Custom Dressmaking/ Small Business Oriented | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Fashion Design and Merchandising - Theater Costuming | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Fashion Design and Merchandising - Technical (Apparel Industry Oriented) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Fashion Design and Merchandising - Fashion Merchandising | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Engineering | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Economics (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Business Administration (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Arts - Art History (Optional transfer) | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
| Associate of Science - Business Management | 2 Year | USD 8,610 |
Admission Requirements
| Courses | Exams |
|---|---|
| Associate's Degree |
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