Columbia College Hollywood

Columbia College Hollywood was founded in 1953 in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles as a division of Columbia College in Chicago. The curriculum focused on the growing television and radio industries. In 1959, Columbia College Hollywood separated from the Chicago institution to operate as an independent, private, non-profit college.

In its early years, Columbia College Hollywood grew alongside the film and television industries, eventually moving from MacArthur Park in 1970 to a larger space on La Brea Avenue in central Hollywood. The college established its current campus in 1997 when it moved into the former headquarters of Panavision in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles. At that time, its enrollment was 200. In 2018, Columbia College Hollywood acquired the former Tribeca Flashpoint College, a creative media school in Chicago, Illinois, which became Columbia College Hollywood's first branch campus, now named Flashpoint Chicago, a campus of Columbia College Hollywood. The Chicago campus closed in 2022.

Columbia College Hollywood struggled through the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, Columbia College Hollywood affiliated with Arizona State University and was renamed California College of ASU. Under this arrangement, the college had its own board of trustees and degree programs. Its operations moved from the Tarzana campus to the ASU California Center in downtown Los Angeles. California College of ASU closed on December 19, 2025. ASU is the custodian of records for the former institution.