Ready to Start Fall 2025?
Join us for Viking Friday (August 15) or Registration Saturday (August 16)!
Learn about student support services, talk to the Admissions & Financial Aid team, review your Ed Plan with a counselor, get hands-on-help and all your questions answered, take a campus tour and enjoy our beautiful campus, and more! Win some Viking swag while you are here! Find out more and RSVP free today for Viking Friday or Registration Saturday!
West Valley College is about success. It’s about helping students create a future for themselves so they can contribute to a world that needs their talents, drive and enthusiasm. We do that by providing as much one-on-one interaction with students as possible. The results speak for themselves.
Statistics from the academic year of 2023-2024:
- 642 students transferred to top institutions including UCs and CSUs
- 1,316 AA/AS degrees and 588 AA-T/AS-T degrees awarded to WVC students
- 224 certificates that led to careers awarded to WVC students
- We host learners from 25 countries who come to the United States looking for the kind of instruction that will help them contribute to the global economy.
For more metrics, visit the Fast Facts page.
We offer classes on our beautiful 143-acre Saratoga campus in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, located at the southwest border of Silicon Valley. Here you can expand your mind, hang out with friends, and contemplate a world of ideas.
Land Acknowledgement
West Valley College acknowledges that our campus occupies the unceded aboriginal territory of the intermarried ancestral Muwekma Ohlone Somontac/Partacsi/Ritocsi tribes whom were missionized in Missions Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. Our campus community supports the sovereignty of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and all Indigenous peoples. Learn more here.