Long Beach City College - Liberal Arts Campus - Long Beach, California

Aracely C.

It’s as good as a community college can get, they’ve got lots of resources for assistance (emergency aid, free food vault and food assistance, as well as 24/7 security parking for those who live in their car). Lots of opportunity.

However I can’t go without talking about the FAFSA department in LAC, every time I’ve gone with a mentee, there is always the same woman in her late 40s or so, at the Fafsa question booth, who has made microagressive racist comments, as if asking for clarification meant they were dumb, and any “accent” she refused to respond and would say “can’t hear you” when there was clear pronunciation’s. Horrible service, every other booth has been patient, kind and attentive, such as the cashier, she’s a very nice woman!

Zion445

I m going back to College! I’m excited LBCC has a lot to offer. Staff are nice and students are nice as well they helped me from registration to enrollment. Campus is big and lively.

Bless O.

I'm a student. Thank God for their homeless.
program and for thee incarcerated people. I believe if these programs wasn't there at long beach colly. I'll be back in prison. Thank you LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE. JUSTICE SCHOLARS PROGRAM. PROJECT REBOUND.

Ralph M.

Great time at the long beach performance swap meet & car show🙂 it's a smaller show and swap meet but the entry fee is reasonable and it won't take up all your day, unless you want to hang out in the sun all day long lol 😂

Joel C.

Long Beach has been one of my favorite cities in California it's always cool weather lots of things to do and most important the beach

John

For the past five years attending this college I have seen the constant continued decline of this once good community college. Mind you, this college has never been excellent, but it was cool to attend at one point so just understand that this review holds some weight.

At the start of my path here, the school was filled with students in nearly every class and LBCC was vibrant with many students walking, socializing and having a smile on their face. But those days are gone now. The parking lot near Vets stadium isn't even halfway filled now (used to be filled to the brim), half of the class rooms are empty even during the afternoon which is the most busy time. The libraries and computer rooms are a ghost town. While true in the sense that this school was never considered a party school, or a school where people hang out; My point is that there used to be a lot of people you can meet and connect with. If you care about that, just know that this isn't the college for you and that it is no longer that way here anymore.

Secondly, if you have an ounce of integrity of the time and work you are willing to spend and genuinely believe in hard work, please understand that this isn't the school that will challenge you to those principles. If you are earning an A and another student is earning a C, your professor will resort to changing that C student's grade to B by curving the grade, giving a load of extra credit, getting rid of hard problems on a test, extending HW due date, rounding grade etc. My point is, if you value honesty, respect hard work, and more importantly seek challenge in improving your scholarly skills such as literacy, critical thinking or whatever class you are taking, just understand that you will not get that here. Kiss meritocracy good bye, grade inflation is here to stay. So ask yourself, what meaning is there to attending this college if it's like this?

Lastly, let me remind you that this is a government school. I know what you're thinking. We don't usually view it that way because it doesn't seem fitting for a college but you know and I know that this is what colleges have become so don't blame me that I have to go here but first let me explain. Firstly, I have seen the increasingly encroaching shift of the left leaning politics getting more extreme by the year. It has always leaned left here mind you, but there comes a time when it violates what you're willing to bare. Before 2020 we knew that the classes were quasi propaganda especially for classes such as political science, history and english with skewed and biased perspectives being taught by the professors but it wasn't until 2020 where it became clear that this school just does the bidding of what the dominant left in government, big pharma & tech wants.

And why is it that this school is so concerned about that alphabet community? This community thingy is being pushed full blown on almost every newsletter and it's annoying, it's on the front page of the website like every other month at the very least, and that flag has to be hoisted up that pole every particular month to represent who? A small fringe minority? So do we also put up a flag representing all the fortnite players who attend LBCC? What about the students who are Lakers fans? We don't put those flags because it doesn't represent the students of LBCC as a whole so neither should THAT flag.

All in all, the progressive left leadership here in LBCC has been consuming itself into a black hole of lies, manipulation, and political correctness. Unfortunately, this will be the demise of this school as a whole. It will be apparent that the majority will not want nothing to do with this school and the sad thing is the faculty and professors here are too tied down to their pensions, and high salary to say what is right. This is where LBCC is going sadly but young people are now finding better ways to educate themselves online through platforms like Peterson academy and Udemy and start off on a good path, not a time wasting, overly politicized, debt inducing path!

Loreta G.

Here for the antique flea market, fun to walk and see some of the creative one of a kinds you can find here. However, there was one selling benches that were made with a 2x6, simple all the way, $175. No. For a little more another vendor had gorgeous natural wood, sturdy top and legs. Wish I'd taken a photo. Definitely a must see place to go. Third Sunday of the month, wear comfortable shoes and sunscreen with a hat.

Adriane E.

Great sense of community here. Everyone has been so helpful and enthusiastic it’s very inspiring!