Wytheville Community College (WCC) is a public

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Wytheville, Virginia Wytheville is a town in, and the county seat of, Wythe County, in southwestern Virginia, United States. It is named after George Wythe, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and mentor to Thomas Jefferson. Wytheville's populat ...

. It is part of the

Virginia Community College System The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) oversees a network of 23 community colleges in Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, betwe ...

(VCCS) and opened in 1963 as a two-year branch of

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. WCC joined the VCCS when it was formed in 1967. The college serves the citizens of Bland, Carroll, Grayson,

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(Marion and eastward), and

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counties, and the City of

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. WCC offers nearly thirty academic programs, which include university parallel programs (transfer), occupational-technical programs, and health professions programs. The college awards the associate degree, diplomas, and certificates.

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