Eastern Florida State College Palm Bay Campus — Palm Bay, Florida

The Eastern Florida State College Palm Bay Campus is at 250 Community College Parkway, Palm Bay, FL 32909, beside Lake Titan just off Malabar Road, and its main number is 321-632-1111.

EFSC's campus page lists that address and phone with Dr. Sharon Cronk-Raby as campus administrator as of October 12, 2026, and places the campus off of Malabar Road by Lake Titan, a lake where students often study and meet (EFSC Palm Bay Campus). The college's 2026-2027 catalog repeats the Lake Titan setting and singles the Palm Bay site out as home to the hands-on firefighter program at EFSC's Fire Training Center (EFSC catalog, campus list).

The City of Palm Bay's own description of the city mentions the college by name: its About page says the Palm Bay Campus is situated on attractive Lake Titan and calls Palm Bay the fastest growing and most culturally diverse community in Brevard County (City of Palm Bay, About). The campus page uses the same culturally diverse wording for the community it serves.

Community College Parkway also carries a city facility. The City of Palm Bay lists the Palm Bay Aquatic Center at 420 Community College Parkway SE (Palm Bay Aquatic Center), and the EFSC map numbers the Aquatic Center as building 23 of the Palm Bay Campus guide (Palm Bay Campus Maps).

The Palm Bay Campus opened in 1990, the newest of EFSC's four Brevard County campuses, after Cocoa, Melbourne in 1972 and Titusville in 1973.

EFSC's 60th anniversary release, dated January 13, 2020, traces the college to 1960, when it started as Brevard Junior College in the old Cocoa High School building, and gives the opening years of each later campus, Palm Bay last at 1990 (EFSC 60th anniversary release). The same release says the college became Brevard Community College in 1970, when Florida created a system of two-year colleges, and Eastern Florida State College in 2013, when it began offering bachelor's degrees for the first time.

The Cocoa row's 1960 date is the year the college itself began, not a separate campus opening. In 2016 the college moved its fire training program to the Palm Bay campus, covered below.

The Palm Bay Campus map numbers buildings 1 through 7 plus the city's Palm Bay Aquatic Center as building 23, with a library and science building, an EFSC/UCF joint-use classroom building and the Fire Training Center among them.

The guide also links a virtual tour and a printable PDF of the Palm Bay map (Palm Bay Campus Maps). Building 1 houses the Palm Bay Admissions and Records office in Room 114, and Building 3, the EFSC/UCF Joint-Use Classroom Building, holds the college's cyber lab rooms described further down.

The campus page lists the services found at Palm Bay: an Academic Success Center for tutoring, a bookstore, a career center, computer labs, fitness facilities, food services, a library, a writing center and campus security, along with facility usage inquiries for outside groups (EFSC Palm Bay Campus).

Teaching at Palm Bay reaches past the fire and cyber programs. The campus page names engineering technology, robotics, firefighting and medical assisting as its hands-on workforce programs, points to a Robotics and Simulation Technician Certificate and Engineering Technology and Robotics labs, and describes the A.A. degree as a route to a bachelor's degree at any university or at EFSC itself. The Palm Bay Campus Library and an Office of Student Life with student clubs round out the list.

The EFSC Fire Training Center opened on the Palm Bay campus in 2016 on a 20-acre site and trains firefighters for all 13 municipal fire departments in Brevard County and for Brevard County Fire-Rescue.

The college's February 11, 2016 release describes a four-story rescue tower, a two-story burn building for live burns, a propane field with a control center and an academic building with classrooms (EFSC release, February 11, 2016). The program had shared fire-training facilities with Port Canaveral for many years; limited space there led the college president and Board of Trustees to approve the move to Palm Bay. The first Palm Bay class began training in February 2016 with 35 recruits.

Growth followed. A February 6, 2020 EFSC release reported that in 2019 more than 420 students were enrolled in recruit training, advanced training or the Fire Science Technology associate degree at the Palm Bay center (EFSC release, February 6, 2020). The campus page places the Fire Academy on the southern end of the Palm Bay Campus, with a burn tower and modern classrooms (EFSC Palm Bay Campus).

Program choices at the Palm Bay Fire Training Center run from the Fire Academy training needed to become a state-certified firefighter to the Fire Fighter I/II Certificate, the Fire Science Technology A.S. degree and continuing education for working firefighters (EFSC Fire Training Center).

The Center for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics on the Palm Bay Campus runs a Cyber Range in Building 3, Room 203, and holds the National Security Agency designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.

EFSC announced the NSA designation on April 28, 2022, saying it applies to the center on the Palm Bay Campus, which supports bachelor degree, associate degree and college certificate programs (EFSC release, April 28, 2022). The campus page adds that the center works to raise awareness of internet safety, cyber defense and online privacy, and that EFSC and the center hold the designation from the Department of Homeland Security and the NSA (EFSC Palm Bay Campus).

The Palm Bay Cyber Range is an air-gap network that simulates a real-world enterprise network for traffic simulation, threat analysis and penetration testing, and it hosts outreach events, student competitions and workshops (The CCDF at EFSC). A CyberTech Skills Center sits nearby in Building 3, Room 208. Students can also join Palm Bay's Cyber Titans, a club for cyber defense contests.

Programs tied to the Palm Bay center are the Computer Information Systems Technology BAS degree with a cybersecurity specialization, the Cybersecurity and Network Systems A.S. degree and the Network Security Forensics certificate. The center's phone is 321-433-5161, with mail to 250 Community College Pkwy SE, Palm Bay, FL 32909 (CCDF Advisory Council).

Palm Bay Campus applicants are served by the Admissions and Records office in Building 1, Room 114, open Monday to Thursday from 8 AM to 7 PM, and Florida residents pay $104.00 per credit hour for lower-level courses in 2026-2027.

The admissions page lists the Palm Bay office's phone as 321-433-7300, the same number used for the Cocoa, Melbourne and Titusville offices (EFSC admissions offices). That page prints the Palm Bay street address with ZIP 32922, the Cocoa ZIP; the campus page and catalog give 32909, which this page uses.

EFSC's tuition page posts a single rate schedule with no separate campus rates (EFSC Tuition and Fees), so a Palm Bay student in the Fire Science Technology A.S. pays the lower-level rate and one in the cybersecurity BAS pays the upper-level rate for those courses. Last verified: October 13, 2026, on the Eastern Florida State College and City of Palm Bay websites.