OCC stays on top of transfer schools in county

OCC held on to its title as the top transfer school in the county to California public universities. In addition, it has stayed at second in the state, behind Santa Monica College.

The news comes from the California Postsecondary Education Commission, a state agency that ranked California’s 109 community colleges by how many students transferred to California State University and University of California schools.

OCC sent 1,874 students to those schools in the 2007-08 school year, of which 529 were transfers to the UC system — also the highest number in the county.

Other Orange County colleges in the top 25 statewide include Fullerton College and Saddleback College.

— Michael Alexander