City College-Hollywood
About
Los Angeles City College (LACC) is a public community college in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District, and serves Hollywood and it's surrounding neighborhoods. It is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard on the former campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in East Hollywood. From 1947 to 1955, the college shared its campus with California State University, Los Angeles, then known as Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences (LASCAAS), before the university moved to its present campus of 175 acres (71 ha) in the northeastern section of the City of Los Angeles, 5 miles (8 km) east of the Civic Center.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 7 Title IV programs, 6 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing6 · 85.7%
- No Data1 · 14.3%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools
Programmatic accreditations · 1
Action history · 11
- Jul 2025Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: Voluntary WithdrawalAccrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools
- Feb 2025Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools
- Dec 2024Removal of Show Cause StatusAccrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools
- Sep 2024Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: Show CauseAccrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools
- Feb 2022Accreditation Reaffirmed: Warning RemovedAccrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 24 students received $103K in Pell grants, alongside $24K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 645 borrowers who entered repayment, 9 (1.3%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at City College-Hollywood
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
City College-Hollywood vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions City College-Hollywood selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectCity College-Hollywood | 87% | — | 305 | — | Baccalaureate |
American National University | 50% | — | 770 | $20,215 | Baccalaureate |
Bryan University | — | — | 153 | $20,383 | Baccalaureate |
Central Penn College | 45% | 18.5% | 684 | $19,279 | Baccalaureate |
Charter College | — | 100.0% | 2,157 | $25,225 | Baccalaureate |
DeVry University-Illinois | 18% | 98.4% | 31,296 | $30,878 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
ECPI University | 28% | 74.5% | 12,572 | $20,473 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
FIDM-Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising | — | — | 564 | $41,493 | Baccalaureate |
Fremont University | 0% | — | 174 | $32,256 | Baccalaureate |
Miller-Motte College-Wilmington | 0% | — | 46 | $22,772 | Baccalaureate |
Platt College-Anaheim | — | — | 498 | $25,680 | Baccalaureate |
Platt College-Los Angeles | — | — | 570 | $28,014 | Baccalaureate |
Platt College-Ontario | — | — | 500 | $27,002 | Baccalaureate |
Platt College-Riverside | — | — | 413 | $26,217 | Baccalaureate |
Plaza College | — | 30.0% | 1,002 | $18,193 | Baccalaureate |
Rasmussen University-Florida | 0% | — | 3,121 | $19,113 | Baccalaureate |
Rasmussen University-Kansas | — | — | 359 | $18,289 | Baccalaureate |
Rasmussen University-Minnesota | — | — | 9,416 | $19,071 | Baccalaureate |
Rasmussen University-North Dakota | 0% | — | 52 | $18,227 | Baccalaureate |
Rasmussen University-Wisconsin | — | — | 55 | $18,847 | Baccalaureate |
South College | 53% | — | 11,557 | $17,182 | Doctoral/Professional |
Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology | — | 76.9% | 840 | $31,544 | Baccalaureate |
Stevens-The Institute of Business & Arts | 50% | 100.0% | 89 | $20,095 | Baccalaureate |
Sullivan University | — | — | 2,498 | $25,785 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
The College of Westchester | 41% | 94.4% | 759 | $11,669 | Baccalaureate |
Valley College-Martinsburg | 38% | — | 765 | $25,666 | Baccalaureate |
Wade College | 100% | — | 252 | $21,998 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 40% | 85.6% | 570 | $21,236 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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