-38%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Westcliff University fell 38% between 2021 and 2024 (53.4% → 33.0%).
California · Private for-profit · Predominantly bachelor's
Westcliff University
Irvine, California. 2,037 undergraduate students. 19 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Westcliff University
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Westcliff University fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (21.2% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. California
Each tile compares this institution to the California median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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California median $42,588—
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry59.8%-7% · '21→'24
California median 61.3%$7,500
At program completion2,037
latest IPEDS73.3%
first-time, full-time45.1%+29% · '17→'24
latest cohort$21,000
out-of-state $21,000SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
150%-time completion rate.
-38%
Westcliff University · completion · 100% fell
53.4% → 33.0%
+152%
Westcliff University · out-of-state tuition rose
$7,020 → $17,670
-100%
Westcliff University · cohort default rate fell
41.1% → 0.0%
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in California
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Westcliff University graduates earn $X” — not “Westcliff University makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Westcliff University caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.