Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
About LATTC
Founded in 1925, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC) is a public two-year community college centrally located in Downtown Los Angeles. LATTC offers Associate Degrees and Certificates of Completion in over 65 programs. While Trade-Tech is renowned for its vocational curriculum in fields such as Fashion Design, Culinary Arts, and Construction Technology, students can also take academic and general education courses that will meet the requirement for transfer to a four-year university. Our campus has a fully staffed University Transfer Center that will assist with the transfer process. LATTC students have successfully transferred to UCLA, USC, and CSULA.
Degrees Granted
- Associate in Arts and Associate in Science
- Certificates of Completion in selected vocational programs
Academic and Vocational Programs
LATTC offers over 65 different programs! Popular majors include:
- Accounting
- Architectural Technology
- Automotive Collision Repair
- Automotive Technology
- Business Management
- Carpentry
- Chemical Technology
- Child Development/Early Care and Education
- Community Planning & Economic Development
- Computer Applications & Office Technology
- Computer Information Systems
- Correctional Science
- Cosmetology, Skin Therapy, and Barbering
- Culinary Arts, Baking, & Restaurant Management
- Diesel & Related Technology
- Electrical Construction & Maintenance
- Electronics & Electric Technology
- English
- Environmental Control Technology (i.e. Refrigeration & Air Conditioning)
- Fashion Design
- Fashion Merchandising
- Industrial Systems Technology & Maintenance (i.e. Renewable Energy Generation)
- Labor Studies
- Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Machine Shop: CNC
- Marketing & Public Relations
- Mathematics
- Motorcycle Repair Mechanics- Adjunct
- Nursing
- Paralegal Studies
- Plumbing
- Process Technology
- Real Estate
- Sign Graphics
- Solid Waste Management Technology
- Street Maintenance Technology
- Visual Communication
- Water and Wastewater Technology
- Welding Technology
The Campus & Surrounding Areas
LATTC is situated on a 25-acre campus that currently serves over 19,000 students.
Applications are accepted on a year-round basis. The application deadline for the Fall Semester is July 1st. The deadline for the Spring Semester is December 1st. Deadlines are more flexible for F-1 transfer students already studying in the United States.
Facilities
Trade-Tech is unique in that approximately two-thirds of its instructional facilities are devoted to career education. The college consists of 12 major buildings with approximately 780,561 gross square feet and 586 assignable square footage.