About Ohlone College

The Ohlone Campuses

Fremont Campus

The Fremont campus opened in September 1974 and is located on a beautiful 534-acre hillside above southern Alameda County between Highways 680 and 880. With 300 acres reserved for open space, the campus offers a peaceful learning environment for students. Natural features including black oak, chaparral, and seasonal springs dominate the landscape and welcome wildlife alongside the academic environment.

The architecture is designed to complement the hillside surroundings. At the center of the campus are eight of the nine original buildings comprising the academic village (see Fremont Campus Map), composed of classroom buildings dedicated to music, art, deaf studies, athletics, and science labs, including our biotechnology laboratory and greenhouse. The central campus also features a student newspaper, cafeteria, and bookstore.

Additions to the Fremont campus are the fine and performing arts center, the Gary Soren Smith Center for the Fine and Performing Arts (which opened in 1995); the business and technology center, the Morris and Alvirda Hyman Hall (2002); and, currently under construction, the Student Services Center located at the southern end of the campus where Building 7 was formerly located. Groundbreaking for the Student Supoprt Services Building occurred in March 2007 and the Student Supoprt Services Building is scheduled for completion in the 2009-2010 academic year.

Newark Center Campus

Early in its history Ohlone began offering satellite classes in Newark to better serve students at the north and west ends of the district. In 2001 voters approved a bond committing $100 million to building a campus site in Newark. The groundbreaking took place in May 2005 and the new facility, known at the Ohlone College Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology, opened in January 2008. The building actually consists of five buildings merged into one for greater energy efficiency and to conserve land use and cost. The Newark Center focuses on cutting edge vocational programs including health sciences, biotechnology, and environmental studies.