Valencia Facts

More than 7,000 students graduated in 2007-08, ranking Valencia 1st among the nation's 2-year institutions and 4th among 2- and 4-year colleges and universities in the number of associate's degrees awarded.
Celebrating 41 years Valencia Community College was founded in 1967 as Valencia Junior College. It became Valencia Community College in 1971; its president is Sanford C. Shugart, PhD.
Accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, it offers more than 46 pre-major associate in arts, 102 associate in science and applied science degrees and certificate programs, which lead to immediate entry into the workforce.
84% of Valencia AA graduates who transferred to the Florida State University System in 2006-2007 continued their studies at the University of Central Florida.
Disney's Touchstone Pictures filmed part of the movie "Instinct" on Valencia's East Campus in the Student Services Building. Actors Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland showed up to shoot several scenes in which the East Campus appears as a Miami medical university. Several graduates of Valencia's Film Program worked on the film as crew members.

Full-time tuition for an in-state student is $2,335 per year; books cost almost $1,100 a year.
Valencia's library has about 183,000 volumes, 2,100 periodicals, 23,000 audio/visual materials, 18,700 E-books and over 120 E-Reference Sources/Services.
Valencia has 2,683 faculty and staff members and 39 administrators.
Almost 60 percent of Valencia students are women.
About 26% percent of Valencia's students are older than 25.
Over half of Valencia's credit students live in Orange County, 13 percent live in Osceola County and 7 percent live in Seminole County.
Valencia Foundation received over $3 million in gifts and pledges plus another $233,050 in public matching funds in 2008-2009.
Valencia Foundation's board comprises 60 community leaders who volunteer their time and talents to support scholarships, faculty chairs and learning programs.
Helen Von Dolteren-Fournier leads the foundation board as chairman, with the able assistance of Linda Landman-Gonzalez, vice chair, Jess Bailes, secretary.

Four campuses, including West on South Kirkman Road ; Osceola in Kissimmee ; East , near UCF; and Winter Park, yield an annual enrollment of over 42,000 full- and part-time students, making Valencia the 3rd largest of Florida 's 28 community colleges

Community colleges are the fastest-growing mode of higher education, serving nearly half of all first-time freshmen and nearly half of all college and university undergraduates.

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