San Mateo Colleges of Silicon Valley - Cañada College

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 Transfer 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 more than 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.