Coastline Community College

Good school I need to go there.

You can always find an opening for math courses. They offer all levels of math online including all the calculus courses. You need to be self motivated but if you have a family like I do it’s the best. A bonus is they offer daily tutoring.
Best part is they offer tutoring centers all over. Each of the many campuses have a variety of different tutoring opportunities.
I could have never done as well with online classes without the available tutors but now I get to get a great education and still have an open schedule for my family.

The administration is tough to deal with. You’ll tunnel through numerous students, secretaries, professors, staff, etc, etc, etc of all kinds beyond you get the answers you want. It’s not the best community college for its administration, but it’s not the worse either because of its education. Brace yourself though, as you’ll get a few dozen headaches…

This is strictly regarding my online experience. Tony M. from LA ‘s review is exactly what I went through and my husband is in the IT field doesn’t understand their website either.
I have taken many online classes from a local community college and Colorado tech university. Their professors actually teach. They have live and recorded lectures along with discussion boards. With CCC, I have to teach myself everything. If I have any questions, I have to wait two days for a reply via email. I had only emailed for my quiz results to know what I need to work on for the test and that is all I received. «Professors» don’t go as far as to tell you what chapter\ section to review according to what you got wrong or go over your mistakes with you. I have to figure all that out on my own.
If my employer didn’t pay for my class, I would have asked for a refund a long time ago.
Speaking of refund, if you are trying to drop a class on time, good luck getting a hold of someone since their website is awful! Yes, I went through the same issue as Grace B. did.
” professors” are getting paid a salary just doing a teachers aide’s job. What a rip off!

The administration here is a joke. Trying to get a hold of anyone by phone is disastrous. I recently called two separate departments around 10 a.m. and was left with their voicemail. From having the same experience last time I needed to get a hold of staff (always getting left with voicemails, no one picks up the phone!), I knew that getting a call back the same day was also not going to happen, though I’ve called early enough in the day for them to get back to me later.
My expectations were correct, no call back that day. What’s worse is the next day was a Friday and they are closed, followed by the weekend. I ended up waiting 5 days to hear an answer that took 20 seconds.

Apparently the school bookstore doesn’t honor the GI Bill so veteran’s can pick up their books on a voucher, like every other college does throughout the nation. Because the bookstore was recently taken over by Barnes and Noble, veterans now have to pay for their supplies up front and then wait months for the VA to reimburse, instead of just having it all taken care of in one go like every other college does. The governing members of this institution should be ashamed of themselves to make such a stupid deal that screws over the veterans (especially disabled vets) of their school. F u Coastline and F u Barnes and Noble.

The worst academic advisors ever!!! Admin staff is terrible! Register on time and do everything right and still your courses get screwed up.

The worst academic advisors ever. This school in the CCC district has the worst staff and they literally do not care. I’ve never once wanted to curse out someone before in my entire life until I met this «wonderful» school. How do these people get hired and «help» students when all they do is give attitude and give smart ass answers like WE are giving them a hard time? Do your job right and stop being jerks to students who are PAYING for their education!!!
…assholes.
P. S. Never cursed in any of my reviews before.

Pros: Lots of online courses. Great for full-​time workers! SOME courses had great professors. Some others: horrible. You try to ask for help and professor tells you «do it yourself» or «look in the book»… (apparently she was like that with all her students)
Cons: Academic Counselors. DO NOT TRUST THEIR WORD. Or ANYONE who tells you that you «need to take this course.» I had taken a COUPLE courses because my academic counselors advised me to do so, only to find out later that those courses either did NOT transfer or I did not need them at all.
Talk about WASTE of your MONEY AND TIME! I work full time, and am a full-​time student. I put myself through college and do not qualify for grants! Please stop wasting my money. It’s been a year and I am STILL working out the mess they caused with my current school, CSUF! (yes! transferred!)
Some courses and some professors were amazing, but overall, I do not recommend this school. If the online programs are appealing to you, then just remember, DO NOT TRUST THE ACADEMIC COUNSELORS!

They have the WORST residency technicians in the world!!! This place is a hot mess. I go to Santiago for 18 units, and it is 100 000 000 000 0000x better. Better teachers, administration, and counseling. The only good thing about this place is the online classes and the testing center. I can get rid of prereqs super quick with little grunt work. Still, definitely not worth the disrespect and being treated like shit. Run away! run away!!!

Best community college I’ve attended in Orange County. I have loved all the professors I have taken and I love how open and not impacted the classes are compared to some of the other neighboring schools. I especially love the Newport campus. It’s so beautiful.
My biggest complaint, however, was with the bookstore. I called to see if a book was in stock so I could drive to FV to buy it before class began, but I got put on hold for something like 10 – 15 minutes. I decided to go in and check, assuming they would probably have it, and they didn’t. I put my order in, but was never told when to expect it. They had only told me they would call me. About a week later, I tried to call to see when it would be in. Actually, I called twice because each time I was put on

Ugh, what a mixed bag. I’m doing the online program for military spouses. I really like my classes so far, the professors are great and have gotten back to me in a timely manner. The client they use for their online classes, Seaport, could be better. It tends to crash a lot, and is a bit confusing to navigate. But overall, it isn’t a huge deal.
However, their administration, specifically the financial aid office, could be a lot better. I’ve sent in the proper forms and paperwork for my federal grant. It has been about a month, and my transcripts are still «under review». Now I understand they have a lot of students, but why not hire more staff to work the department? Everyone I talk to at financial aid seems tired and stressed out.

Pros: Classes are geared towards the working adult, so you can get more online or evening classes that suit an after hours schedule.
Cons: Absolutely pitiful registration and administrative help. Mixed bag as far as instructor quality. Much more consistent and better instruction at OCC.
I’ve taken a few classes here. I’d say the teaching here is about average — sometimes you get a good teacher, sometimes not. One teacher was very enthusiastic and nuturing; the other was an online instructor who hardly spent any time with the class, even to answer questions like whether or not there was homework due when class material gave conflicting answers in two different places.
Their website and registration/​administrative help is horrible. After logging in once I could not access the MyCCC portal in order to register. I requested a password reset. The website said to call back if I did not receive an e-​mail with instructions in 1 business day. 2 days pass, I call. The help said that they thought there were problems that were being worked on, all I had to do was wait. All of this was going on during registration week. I didn’t feel comfortable, but waited another day. I could see in the meantime all my classes were filling up.
It just didn’t make sense – why should some people be able to register but not me? So I call again. The person who answered said that the college had 5 e-​mail addresses for me, but was prohibited from telling me which one the reset instructions were being sent to. So they can’t ask me questions to identify myself and tell me this information? Some of the e-​mails addresses must be old, maybe I didn’t even have access to them. Finally she asks someone else and they said that if I could name one address, they would reset right now and make sure to send it to that address. I successfully name one of the addresses they have and am told I would get a reset. They did not want to wait on the line to see if it worked.
So another day passes and no e-​mail with instructions. I call again. This time yet another person tells me that when passwords are reset, they are reset using certain numbers and told me what the schema was. There would be no e-​mail. So was I supposed to mind read what this schema is? I finally am able to login, but now all my classes are taken and I have to sign up on the wait list. I did eventually get into one class, but all the classes I wanted were open on the day I initially tried to get in, I should not have been put in a «we’ll see» position.
It is hard to find information on their website, too. I looked for several minutes to find the bookstore and could only find it by performing engine searches. It took 10 minutes to find out information about fees and refund dates.
Overall I’d say if the class is offered elsewhere, go to
and see if you can find a review. If the instructor is as good or better at the other college, take it from the other college because you won’t have to deal with administrative hassles or worry that you’ll be able to get in. If the other instructor is worse, then you’ll have to use other factors to decide.

My review is solely the online courses. The staff seems friendly and helpful if you can get a hold of them. Their online courses use Seaport, which is a complete fiasco. I have built multi-​page websites and it still took me a while to figure it out. Because of seaport I will try not take classes here in the future. Example: On one particular class, you have to click 9 or 10 pages to get to your assignments.
Nobody tells you that you have a separate email address with the school, when and where to log in, or how to find your class. You end up with 3 or 4 pages open all the time. you pretty much buy all the material and do it on your own. One class has you buying a text book, study guide, 14 part documentary, audio cds, and scantrons. It’s like hey! do all this work and email it to me!
I took one course at GWC which uses the black board system, which is excellent. Its more like a microsoft program. You can just submit assignments in to a portal to your instructor.
If your taking courses online, look to OCC and GWC first. If they don’t have it, go CCC. They’re Seaport system we’ll make you wish you never enrolled.

Simply the best college for any average joe to turn their life around. I was a bum and decided to give school a second shot at 24. Some classes were definitely not easy nor were they super hard. People who are complaining are just fobs trying to take advantage of the school system for their own financial reasons (you know who you are). I took all my science classes including anatomy, physiology, microbio and Ace’d all of them. I’m no wiz either. I went on to graduate at long beach with a nursing degree.

Suzy in the counseling office (appt setter, not a counselor, would be my guess) is horrible. Terrible customer service skills as she is a «NO» person and was blurting out «no’s» and all around negative responses to everything I asked her. She even brought up an incident that occurred in 2009 when I «missed» a counseling appt because I rescheduled it?! What? When I asked her for her name as reference/​confirmation for my upcoming appt she refused to give it to me… that is a big no-​no. If a person does not want to give you their name it is only because they know they are providing poor service. Unbelievable!

I have attended multiple schools and I decided to write a review on Coastline because I was very pleased with the classes that I was able to get. Fullerton CC, Cypress, Cerritos, OCC, etc are majorly impacted and most students just complain about it and end up staying at a community college for YEARS, but if you actually LOOK AROUND the area you will find that Coastline has 3 campuses and offers a wide variety of night and online classes. Online classes are not for everyone, but I personally loved them because I was able to do the work at whatever time I wanted. I would definitely recommend Coastline, I was able to get all of the classes that I need and I transferred out in exactly 1 year instead of 2,3 or 4… Good luck! :)

I’m usually such a wiz at the online course thing but Damn!!! I can never pass microecon! Had to take it at OCC and FINALLY passed… so beware all your students who take this course… it is A LOT of work.
The facility is very clean, ample parking and always available to students. Love how there’s an ATM (Schools First) and mailbox on site! :)

I believe coastline has a higher ratio of professors who actually give a dam about their students and want them to learn a little something about life.
I’ve taken classes at OCC, GWC, and CCC. One huge thing i noticed is that coastline is a better place for taking math classes… anything from algebra up to calculus (they surprisingly have it now)
GWC and OCC math teachers are relatively harder at these colleges.
well anyway its a nice place, only downside is driving back and forth to the different locations but you can solve all of that by taking online classes.

While I actually received my AA degree and transferred to CSULB from Orange Coast College, I did attend Coastline for a year to take some online classes to finish up my AA work. Coastline’s online/​distance learning classes are wonderful. They’re perfect for people who work full time, have kids, can’t get to class, don’t want to physically attend class, whatever it is.
I succeeded in 3 online math classes at CCC, even though I’m awful at math (well, not anymore thanks to CCC!) and had failed math classes previously at OCC. I also took sociology, human development, and geology, all online. I had to attend a midterm and a final in person for each class, usually at the pretty Garden Grove Center (Euclid and GG Blvd) or the brand new, modern Le-​Jao Center in Westminster (across the street from the court house).
The instructors were helpful, kind, and understanding. and easy to get a hold of. Technically in an online class, you are responsible for educating yourself by reading the text and watching the video lectures. But the instructors were ALWAYS ready for help, there for office hours, and to offer tutoring advice (for free, at the FV office location).
I had an awesome experience taking classes at CCC.
I would recommend CCC to anyone! It’s a great way to get your AA or do general ed before you transfer. Like OCC/​GWC, it’s $ 22ish a unit. You can’t beat that.