The inspiration for establishing the Community College came from the American Community Colleges which play a key role in manpower development of America and the consequent astonishing economic progress. It is reported that nearly 60 per cent of the Higher Secondary School leavers prefer to enroll themselves in the American Community Colleges and only the remaining people enter into the Four Year liberal arts institutions and the Universities. The Community Colleges in America have demonstrated that the manpower needed at the lower and the middle levels of various sectors of economic activity can be easily prepared by the Community Colleges. These institutions are two year Under Graduate institutions providing skill based and employment oriented education.

Objectives of Community College:
   The motto of Pondicherry University College is "Education for Employment" through skill formation. This goal is sought to be achieved by four fold functions, namely, teaching, training, research and extension. More specifically, the objectives of this College are :

• to promote the general educational well being of the community
• to ensure wider opportunities for higher education to those who are denied access to other forms of education
• to provide job oriented courses based on the perceived community demand for specific manpower
• to offer facilities for training and retraining of Government servants and the other workers in the organised sectors
• to initiate socially relevant and community based research projects
• to undertake extension activities on behalf of the University