Southwestern College is a community college serving southern San Diego County. The school annually enrolls about 18,000 students. It offers associate degrees, transferable courses, and vocational certificates in more than 285 fields as well as noncredit courses through a continuing education department. Academic areas include English, math, arts, social sciences, physical and biological sciences, and foreign languages. The college is composed of a main campus in Chula Vista, the Education Center at San Ysidro, and the Higher Education Center at National City. Southwestern College was established in 1961.