American Career College is a private for-profit vocational college focused on healthcare education with three campuses in California: Los Angeles, Ontario, and Anaheim.
[2][3][4][5] American Career College was founded by David Pyle in 1978 as the American College of Optics,[6] which specialized in optical dispensing.
[6] The college's enrollment increased following[citation needed] the approval of its nursing program in 1994 and the vocational nursing program in 2001.
[citation needed] ACC's sister school West Coast University holds some classes for ACC on its campus and credits can be transferred between the two institutions.
[citation needed] In 2020, 79% of enrolled students were female and 58% identified as Hispanic/Latinx.