Clark College is a community college providing two-year transfer degree studies, technical training and basic skills classes for as many as 16,000 full-time and part-time students each quarter. It is the second largest college in the Washington State system of 34 community and technical colleges.

A majority of the Washington students attending Clark reside inthe college’s service district which includes Clark, Skamania and west Klickitat counties.

Founded in 1933, Clark College received its first accreditation in 1937 and has been accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities since 1948.

Clark's main campus is located on 101 acres in Vancouver’s historic Central Park just east of the Interstate 5 freeway and north of the Columbia River and Fort Vancouver Historic Reserve.

Classes are also offered at Clark College at Columbia Tech Center in eastern Clark County; Clark College at Town Plaza, located two miles east of the main campus; and Clark College at Washington State University Vancouver in Salmon Creek.