Canada College - Cañada College

For more than 50 years, Cañada College has provided enriching and life-changing educational opportunities for San Mateo County residents. With the support and guidance from award-winning faculty and staff, residents can pursue certificates and degrees for career training or serve as a transfer gateway to four-year colleges and universities.

Located in the Silicon Valley heart, Cañada College offers hundreds of day, evening, and weekend courses in more than 40 quality instructional programs, including sciences, business, multimedia, medical assisting, the arts, and technical training.

The College also provides extensive basic skills training and innovative student support services in counselling, orientation, certificate and degree planning, transfer assistance, and tutoring.

Cañada College provides our community with a learning-centered environment, ensuring that all students have equitable opportunities to achieve their transfer, career education, and lifelong learning educational goals. The College cultivates in its students the ability to think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, reason quantitatively, and understand and appreciate different views 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.