| South Coast College | |
| Established: | 1961 |
| Type: | Private for-profit technical college |
| Dean: | Jean Gonzalez, BA, MA |
| City: | Orange, California |
| State: | California |
| Country: | United States |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.southcoastcollege.edu |
South Coast College is a private for-profit technical college in Orange, California. It offers certificates for career preparation in court reporting and medical assistant careers and a paralegal Associate of Arts degree. It is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges[1] and approved by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the state of California, for court reporting, paralegal, and medical assistant programs.[2]
H. S. Whitley founded the Stenotype School of Long Beach in 1961 as its director-owner.[3] A private college, it relocated to Westminster and was renamed Whitley College of Court Reporting.[4] [5] Whitley College merged again, in 1980, with Orange County College of Court Reporting and was re-named South Coast College. The college relocated to Anaheim in 1993 and, in 2001, to its facility in the city of Orange.
South Coast College offers certificates in court reporting[6] and medical assisting,[7] as well as a paralegal Associate of Arts degree.[8] The court reporting program is approved by the National Court Reporters Association.[9]