Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
TypePublic community college
Academic affiliations
Space-grant
PresidentMary S. Graham
Location
Perkinston
,
Mississippi
,
United States
Colors   Blue & Gold
MascotBulldogs
WebsiteMGCCC.edu

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) is a public community college with its main campus in Perkinston, Mississippi. It was founded as Harrison County Agricultural High School in 1912. MGCCC has three campuses and six centers: The main campus in Perkinston; the Jackson County Campus is in Gautier; the Harrison County Campus is in Gulfport; with the George County Center in Lucedale; the West Harrison County Center in Long Beach; the Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Center in Gulfport; the Keesler Center at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi; the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport; and the Bryant Center at Tradition in Harrison County.[1]

MGCCC also offers a Community Campus that provides workforce education programs, onsite and online, to south Mississippi residents and employers.[2]

The college's athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs. They compete in the Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges in football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball, golf and tennis. The 1971, 1984, and 2019 Mississippi Gulf Coast Bulldogs football teams won the national junior college football championships. The 2007 team was co-national champion.[3] The 1948 football team also shared the Williamson Football Rating Bureau national championship with Compton Junior College. The men's golf team won the NJCAA Division II Men's Golf Championship in 2018[4] and Colin Troxler won an individual national championship in 2017.[5] The women's basketball team won the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Junior College national championship in 1973.

  1. ^ MGCCC Campus Maps Retrieved 2014-10-09
  2. ^ MGCCC Community Campus Retrieved 2014-10-09
  3. ^ Butler and Mississippi Gulf Coast Share 2007 NJCAA Football Title Archived 2009-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "MGCCC WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP". Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Athletics. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  5. ^ "Troxler wins national title for 2nd-place MGCCC". Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Athletics. 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2018-07-10.