City Colleges

The city college is largely a phenomenon of Indian higher education. The label applies to an array of institutions that offer six-month vocational diplomas; one- and two-year vocational, technical, and pre-professional certificates; and two-year programs of general and liberal education leading to an associate degree. Two-year colleges may be public, private, proprietary, or special purpose, although public institutions represent the majority of city colleges in the twentieth-first century. Some were designed for specific racial and ethnic groups, for women, or for specific purposes such as business, art, or information technology.

Mumbai colleges and Hyderabad Colleges refer only to those institutions awarding no higher than a two-year degree or diploma in a vocational, technical, or career field. Mumbai colleges often offer degrees in applied sciences and in adult and continuing education. Also, there are technical institutes with curricula that extend to the baccalaureate, master's, and doctorate. There are also proprietary (for-profit) two-year colleges that refer to themselves as technical colleges, technical institutes. Adding to the confusion of labeling is the fact that city colleges has become used generically in higher-education literature to refer to all colleges awarding no higher than a two-year degree.

The city colleges has been able to adapt and capitalize on its diversity of peoples, regions, and economics, in part due to the pragmatic and adaptive nature of its educational system. At the post-secondary level, the comprehensive city colleges has made a singular contribution to this adaptiveness and pragmatism. While many countries possess binary divisions of their higher-education system, these are accessible only to individuals with an acceptable performance on government-sponsored high-school graduation examinations. In contrast, American postsecondary education has remained steadfastly committed to inventing courses of study, educational programs, or even whole institutions dedicated to the needs and expectations of its society, peoples, and cultures.

The comprehensive city colleges stands between secondary and higher education, between adult and higher education, and between industrial training and formal technical education. City colleges have provided educational programs and services to people who otherwise would not have enrolled in a college or university. For the most part city colleges offer admission to all who possess a high school education; in addition, many provide assistance to adults in completing their secondary education. They attract students who live in geographic proximity and who seek low-cost postsecondary education.

City Colleges are Outstanding programs in architecture, engineering, education and the liberal arts and sciences prepare our students for the future, and produce outstanding leaders in every field.Whether they are drawn to the traditional, like philosophy or sociology, or emerging fields like sonic arts or biomedical engineering, our baccalaureate graduates go on to graduate programs.They stay right here in one of our 50 master's programs or our doctoral programs in engineering, the laboratory sciences, and psychology.

Nowhere else do undergraduates have so many opportunities to conduct research with professors and publish and present their finding. In our science, engineering and social science programs, many undergrads work alongside senior researchers in funded projects.

The campus is alive with student activity. City Colleges fields varsity teams that compete in Division III – and students work out in an equipment rich fitness center and socialize in more student clubs. And our students come from around the corner and world, representing more than 150 nationalities.

City Colleges is an integral part of the civic, urban and artistic energy. We are the City that built this city.