[6] As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of Odessa College is the following:[7] The Pecos Technical Training Center is an extension of Odessa College, located at 1000 S. Eddy St, Pecos, Texas.

Odessa Junior College was featured in the Supreme Court case Perry v. Sindermann, 408 U.S. 593 (1972).

The new center enables Odessa College to improve and expand its long-established extension education program in Pecos.

In the first annual National Junior College Golf Tournament on June 2–5, 1959, Odessa College almost made a complete sweep of the honors with Jerry Lackey winning the individual championship with a score of 290 while Les Howard and Melvin Chisum took home the 1st-place trophy in the team competition.

In 1968 Gail Sykes won the national intercollegiate individual women's golf championship.