Hillsborough Community College

5230 West U.S. Highway 98, Panama City, FL

Hillsborough Community College (HCC) is the ninth largest of 28 colleges in Florida's community college system. HCC is a public college district, with five campuses and three centers. HCC offers more than 150 academic programs, including 18 associate's degree programs and more than 100 workforce training programs.

HCC offers healthcare training, as well as training for community fire and police academies. These programs train the majority of the area's first responders to emergencies. HCC runs a "2+2 Program," which is the largest program in Florida that prepares students for successful transfer to the University of South Florida.

History

Hillsborough Community College was founded in 1968 as part of a 28-college system.

Academics

The academic calendar for Hillsborough Community College follows two formats. The college's "regular" classes follow a semester format, with fall, spring and summer semesters that run for 16 weeks. There is also a calendar for "weekend" classes, which follows a slightly different timeline involving varied starting and ending dates for many weekend classes.

Colleges and Schools

As a two-year community college, the learning units at Hillsborough Community College are divided into programs of study, rather than into colleges and schools. The programs of study include a College Preparatory Curriculum, programs for the Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degrees.  HCC also offers Health Science programs, College Credit Certificates, and Postsecondary Adult Vocational Programs.

Student Life

There is something for everyone at Hillsborough Community College, with more than 100 clubs and organizations to choose from. The college offers everything from the Aquaculture Club and African-American Student Union, to the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Chess clubs.  Emerging Green Builders, Gospel Choir and Hawk Media are some of the other groups that students may wish to participate in. The Student Government Association offers opportunities to for leadership and involvement in student politics.

Student housing is provided on the HCC Dale Mabry Campus at Hawks Landing Student Apartments, offering apartment-style living with access to a swimming pool, workout rooms and many other amenities.

Athletics

The HCC Athletics Department has a mission to develop its student-athletes into well-rounded achievers by supporting their physical, social, psychological, emotional and ethical needs through cooperation with other HCC faculty, staff and families.

The HCC "Hawks" compete in several intercollegiate sports, including:

Men's Sports:

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Tennis
• Volleyball

Women's Sports:

• Basketball
• Softball
• Tennis
• Volleyball

Satellite Campuses

Hillsborough Community College has five campus locations and three satellite locations. It also has a distance learning program, and a corporate training and continuing education division at its Institute for Corporate and Continuing Education (ICCE).

HCC Locations:

• HCC Brandon Campus
• HCC at The Regent (satellite location for Brandon Campus)
• HCC Dale Mabry Campus
• HCC Plant City Campus
• HCC SouthShore
• HCC Ybor City Campus
• HCC MacDill Center

Community Life 

The community service programs of Hillsborough Community College work with more than 60 non-profit agencies in Hillsborough County and the region. Students at HCC can help the local communities by participating in volunteer opportunities that help or support animals, arts & culture, the environment, health & medicine, preserving historical sites, assisting with housing, hunger prevention, justice, children and mentoring, people with disabilities, and more.