• The Virginia Beach area offers a variety of colleges to students.university college image by Mary Lane from Fotolia.com
  
  Students near Virginia Beach won't have trouble finding things to do during study breaks when it's warm outside. The area features a beach off the Atlantic Ocean with a boardwalk, and it also has 249 parks and facilities on more than 4,000 acres. The area has a variety of colleges to meet a diverse group of student needs.
  
  

Hampton University College of Virginia Beach

• Hampton University College of Virginia Beach is a satellite campus of Hampton University, a private historically black college in Hampton. The school, which opened in September 2003, offers a Bachelor of Science in three programs--an accelerated nursing program, in Hotel and Restaurant Management and in Public Safety Administration. It also has a registered nurse (RN) to a B.S. program and a licensed practical nurse (LPN) to B.S. program. Students can also get a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and certificates in Elementary Education, Special Education Learning and Behavior Disorders, Special Education Serious Emotional Disorders and in the Food Service Manager program.
  
  Hampton University College of Virginia Beach
  253 Town Center Drive, Suite 1035
  Virginia Beach, VA 23462
  (757) 637-2200
  cofvb.hamptonu.edu
  
  

Tidewater Community College

• Tidewater Community College (TCC) is one of the 23 colleges in the Virginia Community College System. The two-year school has four campuses in Virginia Beach and nearby Chesapeake, Norfolk and Portsmouth. TCC also has an Advanced Technology Center, a Visual Arts Center and offers courses at a dozen area military bases. The 40,000 students who take classes each year are bound to find something they like with 150 degree and certificate programs available.
  
  Tidewater Community College
  District Office
  121 College Place
  Norfolk, VA 23510
  (757) 822-1122
  tcc.edu
  
  

Virginia Wesleyan College

• Virginia Wesleyan College is a private liberal arts college of 1,400 students that is related to the United Methodist Church. The small school allows for an 11 to one student to faculty ratio. Small doesn't mean that students don't have choices. Virginia Wesleyan has 38 majors divided into the Humanities, Social Science and Natural Science and Mathematics divisions. The choices extend to more than 70 student organizations, ranging from political clubs to fraternities and sororities.
  
  Virginia Wesleyan College
  1584 Wesleyan Drive
  Norfolk, VA 23502
  (757) 455-3200
  vwc.edu