Tidewater Community College

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Tidewater Community College
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Motto From here, go anywhere
Established 1968
Type Public University, Community College
President Deborah M. DiCroce
Faculty 1,233
Undergraduates 14,209
Postgraduates 0
Location Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
Campus Urban, Suburban
Mascot Storm
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 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 Virginia Community College System and the 37th largest in the United States. It offers a 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 Southeastern Virginia.

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