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Career Education

Moreno Valley College (MVC) Career & Technical Education can help you plan for a successful, rewarding future. CTE programs deliver both academic education and employable skills you’ll need for career success, and allow you to graduate equipped to find a well-paying, high-demand job. Enrollment is just the first step to start on your career. We’ve created a structure that drives career growth even before graduation, giving you the chance to earn back tuition costs and get ahead fast.

Our Career Training Pathways

Arts, Communication, and Media

Marketing

Undertake and manage the process of developing consumer and business markets. Learn effective consumer communication, how to conduct market research and analysis, create market and customer segments, and understand how businesses operate.

Business Administration with Marketing Concentration Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

The Associate of Arts in Music offers you a systematic plan of study for developing skills in music theory, musicianship, music literature, collaborative performance, and keyboard proficiency.

Music Associate Degrees (AA and AA-T)
Guitar Performance Certificate

Interpretation

The Community Interpretation program provides you with a foundation in the skills of Spanish-English translation and interpretation. You will train intensively in the three modes of interpreting: simultaneous, consecutive, and sight translation.

Community Interpretation Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

ACCOUNTING ​

As a small business owner or employee, understanding and being able to leverage accounting skills and concepts can help make you and your business more successful.

Business Administration

Business administration helps prepare you to manage people, resources and time. With a degree or certificate in business administration, you’ll be able to fulfill many different roles within small, medium and large businesses; be prepared to work in professional settings; and will be provided opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Business Administration Certificate and Associate Degrees (AS and AS-T)
Business Information Worker Certificate

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are leaders and innovators. MVC offers a unique business-oriented education path for students interested in starting their own business, with foundational courses that delve into design thinking, customer assessment, problem solving, financing and leveraging resources.

Entrepreneurship Certificates and Associate Degree (AS)

Logistics

Logistics management focuses on understanding and effectively managing a supply chain at the local, national and global scales. Learn how to support business logistics end-to-end through warehousing, transportation, service contracting, purchasing, and global logistics.

Management

Gain the skills required to be an effective manager. Learn how to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization with an emphasis on people as the most important asset of a business.

Project Management

Project management ensures a business, team and project stays on track and on budget, hits deadlines, and sets realistic and reachable goals. A project manager helps select the best projects, plans strategies to address concerns like shortages and unexpected delays, and coordinates resources and personnel.

Project Management Professional Certificate

Real Estate

Learn what it takes to develop, buy, sell, appraise, and manage real property from land use development policy and law to marketing procedures and agency management. Grow an understanding of brokerage, property inspection and appraisal, real estate investing, leasing and renting properties, commercial real estate, and property management.

Business Administration with Real Estate Concentration Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

Graphic Design

At MVC, graphic design classes help students pursue creative solutions to communicating visual and written ideas. You’ll learn the foundations of marketing, artistic and design concepts and principles, and practical skills with industry standard tools.

Basic Graphic Design Certificate

Computer Applications

Modern offices are technology-first. A degree in computer applications or a related certificate means you’re prepared to perform in office and administrative settings.

Computer Applications Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

Computer Science

Computer science ensures you have the technical skills to keep up in a modernizing workforce. As a rapidly growing field that shows no signs of slowing down, computer science prepares you to specialize in a wide variety of careers from hardware engineering to data analysis to systems administration.

Computer Science Associate Degree for Transfer (AS-T)

Computer Programming

Studying computer programming prepares students for careers in a rapidly growing industry that shows no signs of slowing down. By learning computer programming, you’ll learn how to think abstractly, solve problems, and gain an understanding of multiple programming languages and how computer systems work.

Computer Programming Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Python Programming Certificate

Cybersecurity

Cyber security relates to the methods used to protect computers, networks, programs and data from unauthorized access or attacks that are aimed for exploitation.

Data Science & Analytics

Data provides the concrete evidence that allows businesses grow, research, streamline resources, and identify the metrics that measure their success. The wealth of data being collected and stored by the technologies can bring transformative benefits to organizations and societies around the world, but only if we can interpret it.

Data Science Associate Degree (AS)
Data Analytics Certificate

Information Assurance Auditing

The Information Assurance Auditing project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Students learn how to start their own business auditing the cyber footprint of small businesses, which includes all digital assets, networks, policies, procedures, physical security and the protection of data.

Information Assurance Auditing Certificate

Information Technology

Information technology is a broad field that ranges from hands-on computer support, to managing a help desk, to software implementation and development.

Video Game Development

The video game industry is filled with people passionate about their careers. At MVC, you’ll learn about the game development project life cycle, art and color theory, design principles, 3D modeling and real-time simulations, 3D animation, and level design.

Simulation and Gaming: Game Art Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

Web Design & Development

Studying web design and development at MVC will help students become competent HTML and CSS coders. You’ll learn Dreamweaver, how to streamline the development cycle and effectively integrate all the typical technologies within a website, and how to be a valuable member of a professional web design or development team.

Web Design and Development Certificates

Early Childhood Education

The Early Childhood Education program provides an educational and practical foundation if you are interested in working with children from infancy through third grade.

EDUCATION PARAPROFESSIONAL​​

Educational assistants and paraprofessionals assist in regular classroom settings, help provide instruction and supervision to special student populations, help with early intervention and early childhood special education, and provide community development programs service children with special needs, adult leaders, and students learning English.

Administration of Justice

MVC’s Administration of Justice program of study focuses on the criminal justice system, its organizational components and processes, as well as its legal and public policy contexts.

Administration of Justice Associate Degrees (AS and AS-T)
Crime & Intelligence Analysis Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Emergency management experts work to predict, plan, train and respond to natural disasters such as wildfires, earthquakes, and floods, and to protect our borders, critical infrastructure, airports, and seaports, and can enter a wide range of career fields and industries.

Emergency Management & Homeland Security Certificate and Associate Degrees (AS)

FIRE TECHNOLOGY​

A background in fire technology prepares you for careers in fire service. MVC partners with local and state-wide fire control agencies to teach you how to identify and respond to fire and emergency incidents, investigate causes of fire, how to understand and enforce regulatory requirements, and how to mitigate common health and safety concerns.

Fire Technology Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Firefighter Academy Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Fire Service Leadership Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

Law Enforcement

Law enforcement training prepares you to become a peace officer, correctional officer, security officer, dispatch personnel, and more. Gain essential practical and theoretical skills to understand the law and the judiciary, public policy, and how to promote a safe and lawful society. MVC partners with local and state-wide law enforcement agencies.

Correctional Deputy Academy Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Peace Officer Academy Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Public Safety Dispatch Certificate

Medical Assisting

Medical assistants perform administrative and limited clinical duties under the direction of physicians. MVC offers two pathways to earning associate degrees and certificates in medical assisting, allowing you to focus on administrative and clinical skills or to specialize in medical transcription.

Administrative/Clinical Medical Assisting Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Transcriptionist/Health Documentation Specialist Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

DENTISTRY​

Good oral hygiene helps promote better individual and community health outcomes. As a dental assistant or dental hygienist, you’ll learn how to perform patient care services, how to assist and use equipment in dental settings, perform preventative dental procedures, educate patients, and more in a state-of-the-art dental education facility.

Dental Assistant Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Dental Hygiene Associate Degree (AS)

Emergency Medical Services

The School of Public Safety is one of the largest public safety training centers in Southern California and is located at the Ben Clark Training Center. We prepare you to work as law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, correctional officers, dispatchers, probation officers, crime analysts, and specialists in emergency management and homeland security.

Emergency Medical Technician Certificate
Paramedic Academy Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)

Kinesiology

In studying kinesiology, you will come to understand the body’s physiological and biomechanical responses to exercise. Kinesiology faculty strive to educate and inspire our students on the importance of physical activity during the lifespan.

Kinesiology Associate Degree for Transfer (AS-T)
Fitness Professionals Certificate

Social Work, Human Services & Counseling

Human services promote or enhance an individual’s well-being. This program serves as a college and career pathway for social work, human services and counseling practices, and offers a variety of focus areas, service-based learning opportunities, and additional career certificates.

Social Work, Human Services and Counseling Practices Certificate and Associate Degree (AS)
Behavioral Therapist Certificate
Child Welfare and Family Studies Certificate
Drug and Alcohol Studies Certificate
Employment Support Specialization Certificate
Military Social Work Certificate

Step by Step Guide

How to apply

  1. Join the MVC family.
 Your application to become an MVC Mountain Lion is free. Get started online.

  2. To start your college application process, create an OpenCCC account.

    *OpenCCC is a service of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.
    This account allows you to access the online services of the California Community Colleges.
    All information in your account is private and secure.

  3. Complete your college application and wait for confirmation.

    The MVC application is quick and easy. You will receive emails with registration information and instructions within 2-3 business days.

  4. Activate your student email and complete orientation.

    Once accepted, you will receive an email with your new student ID number and instructions on how to activate your student email. Your student email is where MVC sends important information and correspondence. Once your email is activated, complete your college orientation online or in-person.

  5. Make an educational plan.

    Create your first semester student educational plan in MyPortal. You may also speak to your engagement center success team or a counselor to discover the best courses based on your career goals.

  6. Register for classes online.

    MVC offers college classes in a variety of convenient formats and lengths. To ensure you get the courses you need, review the class schedule when it’s released and enroll in MyPortal as soon as your registration appointment starts.

Contact us for help or guidance

Voicemail | (951) 571-6100
Text | (951) 251-4550
EMAIL | admissions@mvc.edu
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About Moreno Valley College

Our VISION & mission

Vision
To offer equitable, high-quality education that welcomes a community of learners from all backgrounds.

Mission
Moreno Valley College is committed to educating and empowering our students, providing equitable access to education, and serving our communities. Moreno Valley College’s core mission can be expressed in four words: Education, Empowerment, Equity, Service.

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“There is no doubt in my mind that the things I have learned at Moreno Valley College will stay with me for the rest of my career, and I’m so grateful to them for everything they have done for me and for the studio.”

Laurel Harned
Virtuoso Guitarist, Moreno Valley College Graduate

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