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California Colleges

Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in California — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.

536 INSTITUTIONS · 20,306 PROGRAMS · 4/5/6/8/10Y EARNINGS HORIZONSVINTAGE · COLLEGE SCORECARD + IPEDS HD · 2025-05 · HISTORY 1996–2024
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags across California

Top signals rolled up across Californiainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-56%

Shasta Bible College and Graduate School · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at Shasta Bible College and Graduate School are 56% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($28.9k vs $65.3k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-46%

SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary are 46% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.4k vs $65.3k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-34%

American Medical Sciences Center · For-profit associate's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at American Medical Sciences Center are 34% below the for-profit associate's-predominant peer median ($30.0k vs $45.5k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-32%

National Polytechnic College · For-profit associate's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at National Polytechnic College are 32% below the for-profit associate's-predominant peer median ($30.8k vs $45.5k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-32%

Laurus College · For-profit associate's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at Laurus College are 32% below the for-profit associate's-predominant peer median ($30.9k vs $45.5k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-27%

California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt · Public bachelor's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt are 27% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($47.6k vs $65.3k).

SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW

The numbers

Statewide aggregates across California Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.

INSTITUTIONS
536
Title-IV main campuses
PROGRAMS (CIP × CREDENTIAL)
20,306
with published outcomes
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
$42,588
across institutions
COMPLETION · 150%
61.3%
median across institutions
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
2,048,058
latest historical vintage
IN-STATE TUITION
$7,470
median across institutions
SECTION 02 · LONG ARC

How California has shifted

Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.

UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT · 1996–20102,048,058
2,222,3551,211,03919962010
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.IPEDS EF
COMPLETION · 150% · 1997–202461.2%
64%41%19972024
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.IPEDS GR
COMPLETION · 150% · 1997→2024+41%

Statewide · completion · 150% rose

43.4% → 61.2%

UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT · 1996→2010+48%

Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose

1,382,227 → 2,048,058

IN-STATE TUITION · 2000→2024+708%

Statewide · in-state tuition rose

$386 → $7,470

SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS

207 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings

Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.

Showing 207 of 536 Title-IV institutions · Public 167 · Private 144 · For-profit 225
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS

Highest 10-year median earnings

Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.

OAKLAND$143.2k

Samuel Merritt University

712 undergrads
CLAREMONT$138.7k

Harvey Mudd

915 undergrads · 94% completion
PASADENA$128.6k

Caltech

1,023 undergrads · 93% completion
STANFORD$124.1k

Stanford

7,841 undergrads · 93% completion
LOS ANGELES$115.3k

Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health

220 undergrads
HOLLYWOOD$114.8k

Gnomon

302 undergrads · 67% completion
BY CITY

All 215 California cities with colleges

Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.

METHODOLOGY

What these numbers are — and aren't

Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.

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