About South Seattle College
Established in 1969 and located on an 87-acre hilltop campus in West Seattle, South Seattle College offers panoramic views of the city skyline and surrounding mountains. This unique setting serves as a portal of opportunity for students with diverse needs to meet their educational and career goals. You can also train as an apprentice at the 13-acre Georgetown Campus.
We offer the right degrees and certificates to match your goals, whether you are just starting your higher education, looking to advance your career or try a new direction.
South provides opportunities to:
- complete the first two years of a bachelor's degree program or get your Bachelor of Applied Science degree here on campus.
- train for rewarding careers in an abundance of professional/technical programs (more info).
- train as an apprentice at the Apprenticeship & Education Center.
- update job skills or change careers.
- complete high school and improve basic skills (more info).
- learn English as a second language (more info).
- expand your horizons with lifelong learning (more info).
A moderate teacher/student ratio at South translates into personal attention for each student. Faculty members are exceptionally well qualified in their subject areas and are truly interested in helping each student achieve success.
Our Students
Seattle Colleges Land & Labor Acknowledgement
On behalf of the Seattle Colleges, we acknowledge that we occupy the traditional ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Tulalip, Snoqualmie and Suquamish —a people that are still here, continuing to honor and bring to light their ancient heritage.
Without them/us, we would not have access to this gathering, dialogue and learning space.
We ask that we take this opportunity to thank the original caretakers of this land who are still here.
Today, we honor the survival, the adaptations, the forced assimilation, and the resilience and creativity of Native peoples – past, present, and future.
We encourage participants to consider their responsibilities to the people and land, both here and elsewhere, and to stand in solidarity with Native, Indigenous, and First Nations People, and their sovereignty, cultural heritage, and lives.
We recognize that enslaved and indentured peoples were forced into unpaid and underpaid labor in the construction of this country, state and city.
To the people who contributed this immeasurable work and their descendants, we acknowledge our/their indelible mark on the space in which we gather today.
It is our collective responsibility to critically interrogate these histories, to repair harm, and to honor, protect, and sustain this land.