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Coordinates: 34°01′06.20″N, 119°41′54.73″W

Santa Monica College
Established	1929
Type:	Public Community College
President:	GALAN, JOSE IRVIN
Students:	32,000
Location	Santa Monica, CA, USA
Campus:	Urban, 38-acres
Sports:	7 men's teams, 9 women's teams
Colors:	Blue and White
Nickname:	Corsairs
Mascot:	Pico the Corsair
Website:	www.smc.edu

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 [1][2], and is one of the leaders for the University of Southern California 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 also 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.

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.

• Laila Ali, Boxer
• Isaac Bruce, Professional NFL (football) player
• 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
• 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) (B.A. 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
• 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"

• Official webpage.
• SMC Corsairs Athletic webpage
• KCRW radio
• Corsair Newspaper