About Us

In 1998, the Southwest College of Houston Community College, the original name of Houston City College, began its first day of classes at the Stafford Campus. The campus has grown to encompass four facilities including the Learning Hub; the Workforce Building for training in advanced manufacturing; the Scarcella Science and Technology Center, which is named after the late Stafford Mayor Leonard Scarcella; and the Fine Arts Center that has a theater, recital hall, and art and music studios. The campus offers courses in manufacturing; IT; construction trades; welding; business; and media, visual and performing arts.

In 1999, the West Loop Campus opened in a 200,000-square-foot building that formerly housed an Incredible Universe electronics store. Today, the campus is home to the Digital and Information Technology Center of Excellence offering a broad range of IT programs such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, coding, cloud computing, digital gaming and simulation, and digital communication. The campus also features a cutting-edge AI and Innovation Lab that’s also a training ground for robotics; a Security Operations Center that provides cybersecurity training; a Virtual Reality Lab for instruction and industrial career training; and an Apple Lab for training in Apple technologies. 

The Brays Oaks Campus began as the college’s response to the community need for affordable workforce training. In a partnership with the City of Houston, HCC purchased the land to build the campus with a city Community Development Block Grant of $700,000. The $12 million campus opened in 2017.  The 28,000-square-foot Brays Oaks campus includes six classrooms, three computer labs, a Certified Nurse Aid (CNA) lab, a phlebotomy lab, an electrical technician training lab, and administrative and student support services offices. The campus offers health profession programs including CNA, phlebotomy, Medical Assistant, and Medical Business Office Professional. The campus also offers IT courses, an electrical technician program, and citizenship exam preparation.

HCC opened its first Missouri City location in the early 2000s in a shopping center on Texas Parkway. As the community continued to grow, the campus reopened in Sienna Plantation in 2008, which included a 45,000-square-foot building and a partnership with the county to open a library adjacent to the campus.

In 2017, a new Missouri City Campus opened adjacent to Missouri City Hall. The 69,340-square-feet building offers prerequisite courses for health professions such as medical coding and Medical Business Office Professional. Programs also include IT, business management, real estate, natural sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.