2025-26 HCC Catalog & Student Handbook

Your 2025-26 Houston Community College (HCC) Catalog & Student Handbook will provide guidance and background to all students enrolled at HCC, prospective students, and alumni to quickly locate and save details about our undergraduate courses and programs [credit bearing courses only]. 

All non-credit courses and programs are located in the 2025-26 Continuing Education (CE) Catalog which can be found in the catalog version drop-down list which appears before the Catalog Search box on the top right of the page. The default selection in the drop down list will be “2025-26 HCC Catalog & Student Handbook”. You may switch between catalogs at any point by choosing the desired version from the drop-down list. After selecting the desired catalog, it will load automatically. 

Archived Catalogs

Looking for a previous catalog? Select from the most recent catalogs or click here to view Digital 2007-08 to 2020-21 Archived HCC Catalogs.  Any catalogs before the 2007 date will require a request from the Registrar’s Office via email hcc.enrollment@hccs.edu .

Catalog Search

The Catalog Search function is available on the upper right side of the page before the Advanced Search link. The first Catalog Search box is a drop-down menu where you may specify the focus of the search such as the entire catalog or only certain sections. Options include Entire Catalog, Courses, Awards, Programs, Centers of Excellence and Divisions, or the Entire Catalog. 

A Catalog Search text box is located immediately after the drop-down menu that allows you to search for key words within the option you select from the drop down menu.

Browse Degree Plans in multiple ways Awards by Degree, Awards by Program, Awards by COE & Division, Awards (A-Z) to find the program that is right for you.

• Click on Course Descriptions to see all the courses offered at HCC.

Or browse contents -

• On the right side of the screen, listed after the title heading Catalog Home, you may click on catalog section titles to navigate to specific areas of the catalog. These sections include titles such as Awards by Degree, Course Descriptions, Academic Information, Admissions, and Student Services, among others.

Within each award you will find a printable Degree Planner by clicking on the paper icon (first icon) as shown to keep record of your educational progress to completion along with your Interactive Academic Advisement Reports (iAARs). This will be valuable for you to reference when working with an advisor at HCC.