General Info

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a public two-year college comprising four campuses and four centers. It offers associate degrees in wildlife and wild lands science and management, turf and turf grass management, industrial arts teacher education, special education and teaching, sign language interpretation and translation, preveterinary studies, occupational therapy, and pipefitter and sprinkler fitter. It also provides certificate courses in landscaping and grounds keeping, welding technology, surgical technology, marine maintenance, and liberal arts and sciences. The college is approved by the Mississippi College Commission for Accreditation and by Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Its athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs. They compete in the Mississippi Community College Athletic Conference in football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball, golf and tennis. The college offers Pell Grants and other federal aid to eligible students. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has campuses in Perkinston, Gautier and Gulfport, Miss.