The Maricopa Community Colleges comprise 10 colleges, 2 skill centers and numerous education centers dedicated to educational excellence and to meeting the needs of businesses and the citizens of Maricopa County. Each college is individually accredited, yet part of a larger system — the Maricopa County Community College District.

The District is one of the largest higher education systems in the world and the largest provider of health care workers and job training in Arizona — a major resource for business and industry and for individuals seeking education and job training.

The colleges offer approximately 1,000 occupational programs (degrees and certificates), and 37 academic associate degrees, and a total of 10,254 courses. Flexible course delivery includes online, televised, traditional classroom, hybrid, mail, accelerated, evening, weekend and open-entry/open-exit choices. Transfer agreements with public and private colleges and universities enable seamless transitions to four-year institutions.

The Maricopa Community Colleges are the leading provider of lifelong learning programs in the valley. Those programs include:

• Continuing Education
• Fitness Centers
• Workforce Development
• Community Education
• Generational Programs

More than 250,000 students attend the Maricopa Community Colleges each year taking credit and non-credit courses. In Fall 2007, the Maricopa Community Colleges employed nearly 3,800 full-time faculty and staff and more than 4,000 part-time faculty and staff.

Under the leadership of Chancellor Rufus Glasper, the Maricopa Community Colleges have a strengthened commitment to the responsible stewardship of public resources. In his message to all employees, at the start of the 2006-07 academic year, the Chancellor identified Public Stewardship as one of the three key overarching themes for the ten college system. "All employees of the Maricopa Community Colleges have a duty to do the right thing. I believe that this organization, its administrators, its faculty and its entire staff, have been given a trust. Our students and their families have entrusted to us their time, their money, and their future. The taxpayers have entrusted to us their dollars. Working for the Maricopa Community Colleges carries with it an obligation to use the monies entrusted to us efficiently, effectively and for the purpose for which it was given, teaching and learning."

The Maricopa Community Colleges support a diverse and inclusive environment where mutual respect and equity are encouraged and valued.