The college is located in Decatur, Alabama, a thriving community in north Alabama's high technology corridor, Calhoun Junior College exemplifies the 2 year college mission of commitment to excellence in service and teaching. 

The school is the largest of the 2 year colleges that make up the Alabama College System, Calhoun Community college is an open-admission, state-supported, community-based, coeducational, comprehensive junior college dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality and accessible education to individuals in its 4 county service area

The college offers Forty-nine associate degree programs and Fifty-two career/certificate programs, Calhoun serves just over Nine-thousand students at its 110-acre Decatur campus; the school's Huntsville/Cummings Research Park site; at Redstone Arsenal, a local military installation; and at the Limestone Correctional Facility

Calhoun Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.