Butte College is a student-ready, rural community college that provides high-quality, accessible education and support.
Butte College serves approximately 15,000 students a year and is an accredited community college located just 75 miles north of Sacramento. We are a Hispanic-Serving Institution and offer more than 200 degree and certificate programs. Students can earn associate degrees, train for a career, or take general education classes to transfer to a CSU, UC, or private university.
Many of our alumni have successful careers in fire, nursing, law enforcement, welding, business, computer science, heavy equipment and more. The College also offers degrees with guaranteed transfer to California State Universities—with 32 Associate in Arts for Transfer and Associate in Science for Transfer degrees.
Butte College Career Education can put you on the path to a future in a wide variety of industries. Explore the educational opportunities within our eight main program areas including, agriculture, arts and media, business, education, health, IT, public service, and technology and engineering.
Setting: Rural
Housing Available: No
Infographic data from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2021-2022: Institutional Characteristics, Enrollment, Financial Aid. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator on March 21, 2023. Data from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Management Information Systems Data Mart: Student Head Count (Fall 2022), Students FTES (Fall 2022), Program Awards (2021-2022). Retrieved from https://datamart.cccco.edu/DataMart.aspx on April 7, 2022.
Fall 2022 Student Counts. Source: California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Management Information Systems Data Mart (MIS)
Fall 2021 (latest available). Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Financial aid: Percentage of beginning students entering postsecondary education for the first time receiving financial aid in 2020-2021 school year (Source: IPEDS)
Certificates Awarded: Number of certifications conferred in 2021-2022 across all programs (Source: MIS)
Degrees Awarded: Number of Associates degrees conferred in 2021-2022 across all programs (Source: MIS)