College Info
3 items available
Wikipedia (intro): California College of ASU, known as Columbia College Hollywood until 2023, was a private college in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1953 as a branch campus of Columbia College Chicago, it offered a curriculum focused on the radio, television, and film industries. It was one of 20 film schools in the United States to be a full member of the International Association of Film and Television Schools (CILECT) and was accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission. Columbia College Hollywood began in 1953 in the MacArthur Park neighborhood and moved to central Hollywood in 1970. From 1997 to 2023, it operated from the former headquarters of Panavision in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles. A branch campus in Chicago, Flashpoint Chicago, operated from 2018 to 2022. The institution—struggling with enrollment after the COVID-19 pandemic—became a private, independent, nonprofit affiliate of Arizona State University (ASU) in 2022 and moved its operations to the ASU California Center at the Herald Examiner Building in downtown Los Angeles. Under this arrangement, the renamed California College of ASU had its own board of trustees and degree programs. It closed on December 19, 2025, with its programming being absorbed by ASU.
At a glance
- Type
- private
Official website
www.asu.edu