The College established the Dual Credit Program in 1989. Today, Del Mar offers Dual Credit through 15 high schools, including all the Corpus Christi Independent School District. Partnerships with two additional high schools are pending. In addition, if a course requires students to register for a lab, they must pay the fees connected with that lab. The program allows students to take two college-level courses each semester.
Students can transfer their college credits to any public institution in the state.
Advanced technology even caught up with one rural high school. Since last summer, Del Mar offered courses to Taft High School students using video conferencing. Taft students sat in the high school's new distance learning laboratory and connected with College instructors using the Del Mar Department of Distance Learning's video conferencing facility. Flores encourages students attending participating high schools to check with their counselors for application and registration deadlines. Students must register through the Office of Admissions and Registrar in the Harvin Center on the College's East Campus, located at Ayers and Baldwin.