Tidewater Community College

Infobox University
name = Tidewater Community College |

motto=From here, go anywhere
mascot=Storm
type=Public University, Community College
established=1968
president=Deborah M. DiCroce
city=Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth
state=Virginia
country=United States
undergrad=14,209
postgrad=0
faculty=1,233
campus=Urban, Suburban
website=http://www.tcc.edu

Tidewater Community College is a two-year higher education institution in South Hampton Roads consisting of multiple campuses in the cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, the largest of which is located in Virginia Beach. The college, founded in 1968, is known locally as "TCC", and colloquially as "Virginia Beach University", or in the case of the Portsmouth campus, "Harvard on the James". It is the second-largest community college in the entire Virginia Community College System and the 37th largest in the whole United States. It offers a great wide variety of vocational and transfer-oriented degrees and certificates for prospective students, including a nursing program, truck driver training and culinary arts degrees. The college serves as the largest higher education provider in all the land of Southeastern Virginia.Fact|date=April 2007

All the roadways in the Virginia Beach and Portsmouth Campuses are maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation as State Route 350, State Route 420, and State Route 367 respectively. [PDFlink| [http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/route-index-07012003.pdf Virginia Route Index] |239 KiB , revised July 1, 2003]

References

External links

* [http://www.tcc.edu Tidewater Community College's official website]
* [http://www.virginiamentor.org/campustour/undergraduate/5160/Tidewater_Community_College__Norfolk_Campus/Tidewater_Community_College__Norfolk_Campus6.html Statistics]
* [http://www.tcc.edu/welcome/president/about/tcchist/ History]