Long Beach City College - Liberal Arts Campus — Local services in Long Beach

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...

So disappointed I am considering alternatives to Long Beach City College. I applied on April 1, 2025. I called Admissions on Thursday June 12 at 2pm to find out if there was anything missing on my application, their phone line was off. When I called today Monday June 23, 2025 the admissions staff said my application went to the spam folder. The staff then asked me to call them back tomorrow so they could process it since it went to the spam folder. I understand mistakes happen but the staff doesn’t care about the implications of missing class registration deadlines or care that the phone lines are off during working hours. Even after finally being admitted it looks like because admissions didn’t process my application in time, all of the summer classes are filled up. I will have to wait to enroll.

I was looking forward to sharpening my skills here but it’s looking like it’s not just quicker but it might be cheaper and more cost effective to take online classes instead. I have heard good things about Long Beach City College but it’s sad that they don’t have a customer service orientation when it would be in their financial interest to seek to register prospective students who are new to the area, who can contribute to out-of-state tuition costs.

Disappointed to start my experience this way so I hope for the sake of the community that the academics are better than the admissions services. I will be pursuing another avenue for professional development and I am wishing Long Beach City College, its staff, and its students...

I used to love this campus when I started attending in 2011. But it seemed like the year I began at LBCC was the year everything started to change. They got rid of all the bunnies and I don't think they expected this to happen but the campus is now riddled with cats that crap and pee everywhere. Hold your breath as you walk past the P, N, M buildings because it's unbearable and unfortunately that's where the vending machines are.

I was lucky enough to get accepted and graduate from the VN program, but unfortunately the program put me over my units and I lost my priority registration status. I thought that was completely unfair and felt like I was being punished for completing the nursing program. It made it extremely difficult to continue taking prerequisites for the RN program. So difficult I am now taking classes at another community college.

School is impacted now, instructors are not as great as they used to be, class options are also very limited. Would I do it again, sure. I got a good education and was able to become a nurse. Do I think this school was once awesome and is now lackluster? Absolutely.

I think the worst part is when students have to go to different community colleges to take the classes they need. It would be amazing to start going to a community college, complete the program you need or transfer to a 4-year institution without having 4 different sets of transcripts to deal with. But I guess that dream is one from...