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Heald College is the nation's oldest business career college in the western United States. Twenty-year-old Edward Payson Heald traveled across the United States to open the first Heald College in San Francisco, California on August 8, 1863. Heald College's mission was - and continues to be - to prepare students for careers that focus on practical, hands-on learning. The institution began when California was only 13 years old, and is therefore intimately tied with the Golden State's history. Heald College weathered the 1906 earthquake and fire as well as two world wars while remaining true to its original mission: to prepare students for academic, personal, and professional success through quality career-focused programs that develop skills to last a lifetime.
As the needs of the workplace changed, the Heald College curriculum evolved from business courses to include degrees in technology and healthcare. Heald College campuses are now located in 11 cities, including Portland and Honolulu and throughout Northern and Central California. Heald offers Associate in Applied Science degrees, Associate of Arts degrees, diplomas, or certificates in 34 fields.
Heald College has a proud history of graduating business leaders. Alumni include such notables as A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America; "Trader Vic" Bergeron, famous restaurateur; M.H. de Young, San Francisco Chronicle newspaper publisher and museum founder; Hiram Johnson, former California governor and U.S. State Senator; George Christopher, former San Francisco mayor; and many others. They are among the hundreds of thousands of successful graduates who have assumed rewarding careers as a result of a Heald education.
For more than 140 years, students and employers have trusted Heald College as a solid and reliable educational institution. Kaiser Permanente, SBC, Wells Fargo, Intel Corporation and American Red Cross are among the corporations that have hired Heald College graduates.
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