Dual Enrollment

Dual Enrollment Overview

Dual Enrollment Mission and Vision

The Dual Enrollment Program at Los Angeles Valley College enables high school students an opportunity to gain college credits before high school completion. Our team is committed to identifying appropriate career academic pathways, workforce opportunities, and providing inclusive instruction and support to students who would like to begin their college experience while they are in high school. 

The Dual Enrollment program at Los Angeles Valley College aims to partner with all feeder high schools ensuring students who would most benefit from dual enrollment, are invited to participate in the program using clear and guided pathways. Our goal is to provide all students with a college experience that will enhance their educational goals.  Also, we aim to provide historically underserved students with a college experience that will help eliminate barriers to higher education.

Benefits of Dual Enrollment

• Dual Enrollment students are getting a head start on higher education by working toward attaining an Associate’s or Bachelor's degree before they've even graduated from high school!
• Dual Enrollment is a cost-effective way for students to accumulate college credits because it is FREE! Taking free college courses now reduces the number of college courses a student will pay to take later on.
• Participation in Dual Enrollment eases the transition from high school to college by giving students a sense of what college academics are like.

What it Means to be a Dual Enrollment Student

Dual enrollment provides students with the opportunity to take college courses while in high school. The program enables high school students to experience college coursework, taught by college instructors, thus preparing them for college and career success. Under LAVC’s Guided Pathways Model - Career and Academic Pathways (CAP), new students will explore career and college options, choose a program of study, and develop a full-program educational plan early on. Undecided students begin honing in on a program by choosing a CAP (meta-major), such as social and behavioral sciences; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); or humanities and communication. The first-term curriculum for each CAP includes a course centered on college and career planning and success, in which students are required to research career and academic interests. Students work with an advisor to develop a customized full-program educational plan by the end of the first year.