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Specialties
COS, located in Visalia, California, is a community college focused on student learning that leads to productive work, lifelong learning and community involvement.
History
Established in 1926.
College of the Sequoias was originally established in 1926 as Visalia Junior College, as a department in the city high school. Its mission at that time was to provide inexpensive, lower-division college education to local high school graduates who intended to transfer to a traditional four-year college. Visalia Junior College was later expanded and a campus was built in 1938. The campus was built on what is still the college grounds. In 1949, it expanded further and formed the College of the Sequoias Community College District.