Cabrillo College is a community college serving Santa Cruz County from its Aptos campus and Watsonville Center. It offers Associate's Degrees, skills certificates, career education programs, classes that transfer to four-year colleges, and courses for personal enrichment. Founded in 1959, the college has grown from about 400 students to more than 17,000 each year. It is a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution and describes its mission as providing an equitable, high-quality education that helps students meet their career, academic and life goals. It is also the top source of community college transfers to UC Santa Cruz.