Southern West Virginia Community College is a community college in the economically depressed coal producing region of southwestern West Virginia.

The school was founded as the Logan Branch of Marshall College and the Williamson Branch of Marshall College in 1960 and renamed as branches of Marshall University when their mother institution finally achieved long over-due university status in 1961. It had community college jurisdiction over Logan County, West Virginia and Mingo County, West Virginia. In both cases the schools were housed in the recently abandoned buildings that had previously held public high schools for blacks, these having been surplussed by the desegregation of public education.

In 1970 the two branches were merged and spun off as a stand-alone community college. The college's jurisdiction was expanded to include Boone County, West Virginia and Wyoming County, West Virginia. Classes in these counties were held in rented locations.

In the 1980s, the college was refocused and permanent buildings were built in each county.

Today the college provides both associates degrees in 2-year fields, and the first two years of a four year degree, in the anticipation of a transfer to a batchelor's level institution. The colleges, under its 2+2 program also hosts upper-level Marshall classes in its buildings, making it possible to earn a 4-year degree on its campuses, although most students do not do so in four calendar years. It also hosts classes of the Marshall University Graduate College.

Today the college has about 2,000 students, almost all of them part time and the vast majority much older than traditional college age.

The school has no residential programs, and no athletics. It does have school colors, red, white and blue, with red and white for the Mingo and Wyoming campuses and blue and white for the Logan and Boone campuses.