Contra Costa College
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| Type | Community college |
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| Established | 1949 |
| Chancellor | Dr. Helen Benjamin |
| President | Mojdeh Medizadeh |
| Vice-president | Tammeil Gilkerson |
| Students | 7,959 |
| Address |
2600 Mission Bell Drive, San Pablo, California 94806, San Pablo, California,  United States37°58′01″N 122°20′36″W / 37.966937°N 122.343256°WCoordinates: 37°58′01″N 122°20′36″W / 37.966937°N 122.343256°W |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colours | Midnight Blue |
| Mascot | Comets |
| Affiliations | Bay Valley Conference |
| Website | http://www.contracosta.edu/ |
Contra Costa College, in San Pablo, California, is the west campus of the Contra Costa Community College District. It is part of the California community colleges system, one of the three college systems in California.
The college was founded as West Contra Costa Junior College in 1949, with the first classes held in the spring of 1950 at a temporary location in the shuttered Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. In 1957, a permanent campus was opened on Mission Bell Drive in downtown San Pablo.
Several premier programs call the college home, including:
The college is flanked by Abella Center to the south.
The college campus is also home to Middle College High School, whose students take college classes in addition to regular high school courses. The high school is part of the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
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