San Bernardino Valley College

Today, San Bernardino Valley College offers classes to 25,000 students and runs on an annual budget of $59 million.

The college also provides specialized programs that lead directly to employment or to improving the skill and knowledge of those already employees in the work force.

MCHS is identified as a specialized alternative high school focused on dual enrollment for underserved, underprepared and traditionally underrepresented populations.

MCHS is located directly north of the SBVC campus and draws its students from the entire attendance area of SBCUSD.

San Bernardino Valley College is a member of the Inland Empire Athletic Conference (IEAC) for nine of its 12 sports.

In 1935, with the damage from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake still a recent memory, SBVC hired John Buwalda of the Caltech Seismological Laboratory to assess seismic hazards.

Buwalda discovered and reported the presence of the fault, specifically recommending "a thousand-foot-wide zone of no building, which basically took in almost the entire campus.

Eight other buildings were determined to be at risk due to secondary ground fracturing or their location across an active surface fold caused by shallow blind thrust faulting.

San Bernardino Junior College, circa 1933
SBVC's historic Spanish Colonial Revival auditorium.