At City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), we are committed to providing our students with a broad range of educational opportunities and services to help them achieve their education and career goals.
We serve a highly diverse student population, including full-time, part-time, transfer, disabled, under-represented, military veteran, and international students.
CCC has many useful resources to help students succeed, including transfer services, GED®/ESL classes, and continuing education and professional and personal development courses.
City Colleges gives students access to a quality education and ensures their success by providing them with the support to complete their program and move on to further education or a career.
City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) aims to ensure the success of every student and serve as an economic engine for the City of Chicago.
City Colleges of Chicago is the largest community colleges system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,500 faculty and staff serving more than 100,000 students annually at seven colleges and six satellite sites.
With locations across the city, the seven colleges include: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College. City Colleges also oversees: the award-winning Washburne Culinary Institute, the French Pastry School, the Parrot Cage Restaurant at South Shore Cultural Center, the Sikia Banquet Facility, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning, the Workforce Academy, the public broadcast station WYCC TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC FM 89.3.
City Colleges of Chicago launched a Reinvention in 2010, a collaborative effort to review and revise CCC programs and practices to ensure students leave CCC college-ready, career-ready, and prepared to pursue their life's goals.
Since the launch of Reinvention, City Colleges has more than doubled its graduation rate and number of degrees awarded, and seen increases in transfer, adult education transitions, remedial transitions, and more. In that same time, City Colleges has saved $70 million, undertook a $545 million capital plan, and posted balanced budgets with no increase in property taxes.
Over more than one hundred years, City Colleges has transformed the lives of more than one million students through education. City Colleges of Chicago aims to ensure the success of every student and serve as an economic engine for the City of Chicago.
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