About 35,000 students take courses annually on the Titusville, Cocoa, Melbourne and Palm Bay campuses, and online.

At the time, it was racially segregated, and a separate Carver Junior College for African-American students was opened the same year.

[7] To accomplish desegregation in compliance with the law, Brevard Junior College merged with the all-black Carver Junior College [8] in 1963 and moved to the present location of the Cocoa Campus at 1519 Clearlake Rd in Cocoa.

[citation needed] The EFSC-UCF partnership also involves the sharing of facilities and services with UCF on EFSC's campuses, including the EFSC/UCF Joint-Use Library.

In the first year (1960–61), the school offered the men's sports of basketball and baseball as "club" teams.

Over the next few years, they added wrestling, cross country, track and field, golf, tennis, archery, fencing, judo, and rifle.

The Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory, on the Cocoa campus, features one of the largest public-access telescopes in Florida[22] as well as large-format movies, laser light shows, and other presentations.

The Titusville campus contains the John Henry Jones Gymnatorium, used for performing arts as well as athletic events.

WEFS TV broadcasts educational, cultural, and informational materials and telecourses of special interest.

The Harry T. and Harriette Moore Multicultural Center commemorates the lives and work of the Moores, African-American community leaders who lived and worked in Brevard County, martyr-pioneers of the civil rights era.