Brevard Community College, located in the heart of the nation’s space coast, is a two-year,
co-educational, publicly supported postsecondary institution. It was established in 1960 as Brevard Junior College. Also established in 1960 was Carver Junior College, another two-year, publicly supported, postsecondary institution that provided educational opportunities to the African-American residents of Brevard County. In 1963, the two schools merged, and BCC moved to its present location on 87 acres adjacent to Clear Lake. With district offices housed at the Cocoa location, the college has four campuses throughout the county and a center at Kennedy Space Center.