About
Diablo Valley College (DVC) is a public community college with campuses in Pleasant Hill and San Ramon in Contra Costa County, California. DVC is one of three public community colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District. It opened in 1949. DVC has more than 22,000 students and 300 full-time and 370 part-time instructors.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 180 Title IV programs, 11 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 169 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing11 · 6.1%
- No Data169 · 93.9%
- 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 · 2
Action history · 11
- Apr 2021Grant Substantive Change: ProgramAmerican Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation · Dental Assisting (DA)
- Apr 2021Grant Substantive Change: ProgramAmerican Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation · Dental Hygiene (DH)
- Feb 2021Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: WarningAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
- Jan 2021Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
- Aug 2020Grant 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, 4,667 students received $20.2M in Pell grants, alongside $2.1M 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 197 borrowers who entered repayment, 7 (3.5%) 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 Diablo Valley College
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 · 11
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
- On campus7
- Non-campus1
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- Race1
- Ethnicity1
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Diablo Valley College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Diablo Valley College 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectDiablo Valley College | 49% | — | 17,228 | $6,142 | Community College |
Bergen Community College | — | — | 11,720 | $9,376 | Community College |
Blinn College District | — | — | 18,095 | $17,225 | Community College |
Cerritos College | — | — | 21,859 | $693 | Community College |
Chaffey College | — | — | 22,460 | $5,743 | Community College |
Citrus College | — | — | 10,429 | $3,800 | Community College |
College of the Sequoias | — | — | 14,494 | $29 | Community College |
Community College of Philadelphia | — | — | 12,926 | $13,306 | Community College |
Community College of Rhode Island | — | — | 12,275 | $5,240 | Community College |
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College | — | — | 20,123 | $4,907 | Community College |
CUNY LaGuardia Community College | — | — | 14,494 | $5,699 | Community College |
El Camino Community College District | — | — | 21,664 | $5,170 | Community College |
El Paso Community College | — | — | 25,567 | $4,154 | Community College |
Fullerton College | — | — | 19,521 | $8,090 | Community College |
Georgia State University-Perimeter College | — | 90.8% | 17,437 | $10,102 | Community College |
Glendale Community College | — | — | 12,075 | $7,461 | Community College |
Grossmont College | — | — | 14,440 | $2,755 | Community College |
Long Beach City College | — | — | 24,985 | $5,001 | Community College |
Merced College | — | — | 12,472 | $4,260 | Community College |
Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City | — | — | 13,523 | $8,165 | Community College |
Moorpark College | — | — | 14,583 | $742 | Community College |
Nassau Community College | — | — | 12,301 | $5,736 | Community College |
Orange Coast College | — | — | 17,096 | $4,754 | Community College |
Pasadena City College | — | — | 24,597 | $3,123 | Community College |
Riverside City College | — | — | 21,730 | $4,026 | Community College |
Santa Barbara City College | — | — | 12,334 | $10,029 | Community College |
Southwestern College | — | — | 20,986 | $10,893 | Community College |
Suffolk County Community College | — | — | 19,973 | $4,882 | Community College |
Tarrant County College District | — | — | 43,928 | $6,073 | Community College |
Wake Technical Community College | — | — | 24,609 | $6,935 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 49% | 90.8% | 17,333 | $5,470 |
Diablo Valley College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The District Office of Research and Planning is committed to building a Districtwide culture of inquiry and reflection through evidence-based decision-making at every layer of the institution, empowering faculty, staff, and administrators with information, and maintaining infrastructure to support continuous improvement in student success.
Visit IR office page- Lindsay KongDean of Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Notable alumni of Diablo Valley College (5)
A curated list of alumni recognized for notable achievements across industries.
- Mo CharloAthletics
- Amit ElorAthletics
- Koko Lahanas
- Roy LeeEntrepreneurship
- Timothy P. WhiteAcademia
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