Miami Dade College, or simply
Miami Dade or
MDC, is a
state college with eight campuses and twenty-one outreach centers located throughout
Miami-Dade County, Florida in the
United States. It is part of the
Florida College System. Miami Dade College is the largest school in the Florida College System and the largest institution of higher education in Florida generally. Miami Dade College's main campus is in
Downtown Miami, Florida, named the
Wolfson Campus.
Founded in 1959 as Dade County Junior College, it is the largest nonprofit institution of higher learning in the United States with over 161,000 students. It is currently the largest secondary institution in the United States in terms of number of students enrolled.
History
Miami Dade College was established in 1959 and opened in 1960 as Dade County Junior College. The original campus was located at the recently built
Miami Central High School. The campus consisted of a portion of the school and an adjacent farm. In 1960, a facility was built on an old naval air station near
Opa-Locka Airport (known as Amelia Earhardt field), which would soon become the College's North Campus. The College enrolled African American students and
Cuban exiles who could not afford other schools, becoming Florida's first integrated junior college. As the college grew, a temporary satellite campus opened in what is today
Pinecrest at
Miami Palmetto High School until the new South Campus (later Kendall Campus) was built...
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