Croydon College is an educational institution with 8,000 students, made up of a Further Education College and a University Centre. It is located in East Croydon, within the London Borough of Croydon. Its origins can be traced to a School of Art that was established in 1868, which subsequently merged with Croydon Polytechnic to create the college shortly after the Second World War.
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