SAN DIEGO - A community college in San Diego will now be offering a Bachelor's degree in a demanding field.
San Diego City College will begin taking applications this fall for it's new Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Defense and Analysis, with classes officially starting in the fall of 2024. It's the first time in the community college's 108-year history that students will be able to earn a four-year degree.
The move comes after the college received approval from the California Community Colleges board. Faculty at City College say they're not in competition with the state universities because they don't offer the program, and if they did, they wouldn't enroll enough students to fill the 81,000 cybersecurity job openings in the state.
San Diego Mesa College was the first community college in the area to begin offering a bachelor's degree for their Health Information Management program.
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