Orange Coast College (OCC) is a community college in Orange County, California. It was founded in 1947, with its first classes opening in the fall of 1948. It provides two-year associate of art and science degrees, certificates of achievement, and lower-division classes transferable to other colleges and universities. This college is a large population type campus. The school enrolls 24,424 undergraduate students which is more than neighboring local university such as Chapman University and University of California, Irvine. It is located in Costa Mesa, California, about 40 miles (63 km) south of Los Angeles. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) away from both the 55 freeway and 405 freeway as well as State Route 73. It is about 10 miles (16 km) from Corona del Mar State Beach. It is 20 minutes from Disneyland, and from two hours to a half day from the mountains and ski regions of Southern California. Orange Coast College was formed after local voters passed a measure in the January 1947 election to establish a new junior college on a 243-acre (0.98 km) site, secured from the War Assets Administration in Washington, D.C, carved from the 1,300-acre (5.