Quincy College

Quincy College

Seal of Quincy College
Former names	College Courses, Inc. (1956–1958), Quincy Junior College (1958–1990)
Type	Public
Established	1958
President	Peter H Tsaffaras
Students	4,505
Location	Quincy, Massachusetts, United States 42°15′11″N 71°00′11″W / 42.253005°N 71.003177°W / 42.253005; -71.003177Coordinates: 42°15′11″N 71°00′11″W / 42.253005°N 71.003177°W / 42.253005; -71.003177
Campus	Suburban
Website	www.quincycollege.edu

Quincy College (QC) is a public two-year college located in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is an open admission commuter school that offers associate's degrees and certificate programs in professional fields of study. Founded in 1958, Quincy College is a two-year, municipally affiliated college serving approximately 4,500 students at campuses located in Quincy and Plymouth, Massachusetts.

During the mid-1950s, demand for higher education on the South Shore, and Quincy in particular, led to the creation of the Citizen’s Committee appointed to study the feasibility of establishing a community college. This committee recommended that a community college should exist and as early as 1956, the first college-level courses were offered.

The school's first classes were offered at the Coddington Elementary School in 1956 as College Courses, Inc., after a committee was created to establish a new community college and Timothy L. Smith, historian and professor at the Eastern Nazarene College (ENC), was named its first director. It was sponsored by the Quincy School Department and used faculty from Eastern Nazarene. Another ENC history professor, Charles W. Akers, became its first full-time director and transformed it into a junior college in 1958, naming it Quincy Junior College (QJC) when it was first given power to grant associate's degrees in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In May 1957, College Courses, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization, was officially formed to help further higher education on the South Shore. In the Fall of that same year, the first freshman class began at what will later be known as Quincy College.