College of Alameda
About
College of Alameda is a public community college in Alameda, California. It is part of the Peralta Community College District and was opened in 1968. Since 1970 the college has held classes on a 62-acre campus at the intersection of Webster Street and Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway in Alameda.
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 43 Title IV programs, 1 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 42 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing1 · 2.3%
- No Data42 · 97.7%
- 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.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 1
Action history · 10
- Jan 2025Grant Substantive Change: ProgramAmerican Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation · Dental Assisting (DA)
- Jan 2023Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
- Jan 2022Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: WarningAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
- Jun 2021Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: ProbationAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
- Apr 2021Grant Substantive Change: ProgramAmerican Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation · Dental Assisting (DA)
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 1,013 students received $4.6M in Pell grants, alongside $497K 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 38 borrowers who entered repayment, 1 (2.6%) defaulted within three years — above 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 College of Alameda
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
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 2
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
- Public property1
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- Religion1
- Sexual orientation1
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
College of Alameda vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions College of Alameda 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectCollege of Alameda | 33% | — | 6,141 | $9,280 | Community College |
Barton County Community College | — | — | 5,092 | $11,865 | Community College |
Berkeley City College | — | — | 6,278 | $8,957 | Community College |
Blue Ridge Community and Technical College | — | — | 4,203 | $4,443 | Community College |
Blue Ridge Community College | — | — | 2,723 | $8,829 | Community College |
Canada College | — | — | 6,625 | $10 | Community College |
Cayuga County Community College | — | — | 3,580 | $7,278 | Community College |
Central Virginia Community College | — | — | 3,481 | $5,525 | Community College |
Cerro Coso Community College | — | — | 5,549 | $6,078 | Community College |
Clackamas Community College | — | — | 5,545 | $8,236 | Community College |
Finger Lakes Community College | — | — | 6,004 | $14,186 | Community College |
Heartland Community College | — | — | 4,855 | $11,389 | Community College |
Hill College | — | — | 4,158 | $6,615 | Community College |
Inver Hills Community College | — | — | 3,804 | $10,651 | Community College |
Leeward Community College | — | — | 6,471 | $7,636 | Community College |
Los Angeles Southwest College | — | — | 5,371 | $6,683 | Community College |
Mendocino College | — | — | 4,225 | $7,500 | Community College |
Mitchell Community College | — | — | 3,979 | $5,761 | Community College |
Moberly Area Community College | — | — | 5,384 | $6,935 | Community College |
North Hennepin Community College | — | — | 5,563 | $9,804 | Community College |
Paris Junior College | — | — | 4,533 | $6,662 | Community College |
Piedmont Virginia Community College | — | — | 5,263 | $6,347 | Community College |
Rappahannock Community College | — | — | 2,962 | $5,310 | Community College |
Schenectady County Community College | — | — | 3,490 | $5,298 | Community College |
Shoreline Community College | — | — | 4,477 | $10,116 | Community College |
Snead State Community College | — | — | 2,917 | $6,369 | Community College |
South Piedmont Community College | — | — | 4,013 | $4,072 | Community College |
South Suburban College | — | — | 3,818 | $2,919 | Community College |
Southside Virginia Community College | — | — | 3,306 | $6,194 | Community College |
SUNY Corning Community College | — | — | 3,720 | $8,488 | Community College |
Taft College | — | — | 4,464 | $2,699 | Community College |
Tompkins Cortland Community College | — | — | 4,958 | $12,851 | Community College |
Ulster County Community College | — | — | 3,091 | $4,586 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 33% | — | 4,464 | $6,683 |
College of Alameda Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The office is dedicated to supporting the institution’s Education Master Plan and strategic priorities by providing planning, research, and assessment services for understanding and serving the community and students, and to support the student success-focused decision-making process at College of Alameda.
Visit IR office page- Rhiannon FollenfantSr. Research and Planning Analyst
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (1)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
Notable alumni of College of Alameda (5)
A curated list of alumni recognized for notable achievements across industries.
- Milton Goode
- Isaiah Hill
- Mildred Howard
- Kevin JenkinsPolitics
- Alireza Rastegar
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