Onondaga Community College

Onondaga Community College welcomed its first class of students in the fall of 1962 and its first graduating class in 1964. The first classes occurred in the college's downtown Syracuse location, the now-demolished Midtown Plaza. In 1970 the college moved to its new and current location in the Town of Onondaga. Residence halls were opened in 2006, and a new arena began hosting intercollegiate, scholastic, and community-based events in 2011. [ 4 ]

The college has two campuses. The main campus is on West Seneca Turnpike in the hamlet of Onondaga Hill , west of Syracuse; OCC@Liverpool (formerly called the North Site) is on County Route 57 in Liverpool, New York .

Coulter Library Building The baseball field during a Syracuse Salt Cats game, 2021 Onondaga Community College is a 2-year college. [ 5 ] It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system [ 5 ] and one of 30 locally sponsored community colleges throughout New York State.

OCC offers numerous areas of study for career or transfer programs. Some of these areas are: Art, Design, Media & Music; Business; Computing & Applied Technologies; Education; Health; Liberal Arts; Math, Science & Engineering; Public Safety & Community Service. [ 6 ] The college is a training center for the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium .