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Santa Monica College is a two-year public community college located in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California.
Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is 32,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college also has one of the largest international student populations of any community college in the US, with approximately 3,000 from more than 100 countries.
Santa Monica College is ranked number one among California's community colleges in transfers to the University of California (External Link

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), University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount University, and other four-year campuses. Transfer courses are offered in such fields as business administration, journalism, fine arts, health sciences, and the liberal arts.
   The Santa Monica College Arts Mentor Program provides certain students in the fine and applied arts with graduate-level training by professionals in their specialized fields. The program was designed for select individuals whose talents exceed the scope of the traditional curriculum at the College.
   Santa Monica College offers a variety of occupational certificate programs, including Accounting, Fashion Design, Office Information Systems, and its Academy of Entertainment Technology (which offers certificates in Interactive Media and in Animation).
   Santa Monica College is also the home of KCRW (89.9 FM), a leading public radio station in the US which broadcasts throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties to an estimated 450,000 listeners. The station is the broadcast home of Morning Becomes Eclectic and Harry Shearer's Le Show.

Athletics

Santa Monica College fields 16 sports

and competes in the Western State Conference. The mascot for SMC is the Corsair. SMC fields both men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country, swimming, track and field, volleyball, and water polo. SMC fields men's teams in American football team, and women's softball, soccer, and tennis teams.
Corsair Field (4,850) built in 1948, is home to football and track and field.
Corsair Pavilion (1,600) is home to men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams, as well as the Hollywood Fame of the American Basketball Association The Santa Monica Swim Center is home to men's and women's swimming and water polo teams.

Notable alumni

Steven Blum, Voice Actor
Lloyd Avery II, Actor
Laila Ali, Boxer
Isaac Bruce, Professional NFL (football) player
Glenn Cowan, Table Tennis player and Sino-Amerian diplomat, Ping Pong Diplomacy
Walter Cunningham, Astronaut (A.S. 1958) (B.S. 1960 at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Rivers Cuomo, Musician (Weezer)
Phire Dawson, Game show model, one of Barker's Beauties
James Dean, Actor
Cliff Eidelman, Musician
Chikezie Eze, Musician American Idol Season 7 Finalist
Dustin Hoffman, Actor
Barry Jaeckel, professional golfer
Chad Johnson - Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver
Rickie Lee Jones, Musician
Brian Kingman,Major League Pitcher, Oakland Athletics
Lenny Krayzelburg, Swimmer (A.A. 1996) (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration 1998 at the University of Southern California)
Robby Krieger, Musician (The Doors)
Monica Lewinsky, White House intern
Alison Lohman, Actress
Candice Michelle, Professional Wrestler
Kel Mitchell, Actor
Mike Muir, Musician (Suicidal Tendencies)
Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft chief technology officer
Mac O'Grady, professional golfer
Sean Penn, Actor
Kenneth Price, Ceramic artist and printmaker (Bachelor of Fine Arts 1956 at the University of Southern California)
Nick Sagan, Novelist and screenwriter
Kentaro Sato, Composer
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California (A.A. 1977) (B.A. 1979 at the University of Wisconsin-Superior). Schwarzenegger gave the commencement address in 2005.
Steve Smith - Carolina Panthers wide receiver
SNoW, Musician
Gloria Stuart, Actress
Hilary Swank, Actress
Kenan Thompson, Actor
Sidney Wicks - Four-time NBA All-star and 1972 NBA Rookie of the Year Santa Monica College was made popular during a fictionalized television show "The Parkers" a spin-off of UPN's "Moesha"

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