The community college is an alternative system of education is aimed at the empowerment of the disadvantaged and the underprivileged through appropriate skill development leading to gainful employment in collaboration with the local industry and the community and achieves skills for employment and self-employability of people in the society.

The community college promotes job oriented, work related, skill-based and life coping education. The important features of a community college are access, flexibility in curriculum, cost effectiveness, vertical mobility, high job opportunities in commercial and service sectors. The community college movement, aimed at empowering the disadvantaged sections of the society, is today becoming a national phenomenon.