Established in 1946, Lake Michigan College is a two-year comprehensive community college located in the southwest corner of Michigan, serving Berrien County, Covert Township in Van Buren County, residents of the South Haven Public School District and adjacent areas of Michigan and Indiana.

Lake Michigan College has four campus locations within Berrien and Van Buren Counties. The College's service area, with a population of 270,000, extends from Elkhart, St. Joseph, and LaPorte counties in Indiana up to South Haven, MI. Located just 90 miles east of Chicago, the area offers a high quality of life, rich in cultural and recreational opportunities.

The College serves more than 7,000 students annually in academic and corporate training programs and more than 200,000 attend cultural events, meetings and conferences held on campus. LMC offers associate degree and certificate programs with credits assured to transfer to four-year colleges and universities, as well as career programs in health care, business and industrial technologies.