Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (L.A. Trade-Tech) is a public community college in Los Angeles, California. It offers academic courses towards 4-year colleges and numerous vocational programs. It is most noted for its 2-year degree programs in Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Culinary Arts, Cosmetology, Automotive Technology, Construction Technology, and Chemical Technology. Los Angeles Trade-Tech College is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. L.A. Trade-Tech is located in the southern edge of South Park, Downtown Los Angeles, near the Grand Avenue Station of the Metro Rail Blue Line, a rail station right in front of the college, and north of University of Southern California. It was first started as the Frank Wiggins Trade School in 1925. After World War II it became Metropolitan Polytechnical High School and later Metropolitan College. It became Trade-Technical Junior College as a community college in 1954. In 1969, the college merged with Los Angeles Community College District which currently holds nine member colleges.