Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine
About
Emperor's College was a private for-profit graduate school of traditional Asian medicine in Culver City, California. Founded in 1983, it offered master's and doctoral programs with accreditation in acupuncture and Asian medicine. It closed on June 30, 2025.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 2 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 2 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data2 · 100.0%
- 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.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
Programmatic accreditations · 2
Action history · 7
- Aug 2025Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: Voluntary WithdrawalAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine · Doctor of Acupuncture (DAOM) - Professional post-graduate doctoral programs in acupuncture and in Oriental Medicine
- Aug 2025Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: Voluntary WithdrawalAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
- Aug 2025Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: Voluntary WithdrawalAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine · Master's Degree- Oriental Medicine in English (MDOME)
- Aug 2023Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
- Aug 2023Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine · Master's Degree- Oriental Medicine in English (MDOME)
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, students received in Pell grants, alongside $1.2M 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 48 borrowers who entered repayment, 1 (2.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
Academic programs at Emperors
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
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
Emperors vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Emperors 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectEmperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine | — | — | 150 | — | — |
| — | — | 149 | $24,046 | — | |
| — | — | 140 | — | — | |
| — | — | 297 | — | — | |
| — | — | 321 | — | — | |
| — | — | 81 | — | — | |
| Peer group median | — | — | 150 | $24,046 |
Institutions like Emperors
Explore the federal data for institutions in Emperors's comparison group.
- California
PCI College
Grad rate—Admit rate—Enrollment149Net price$24,046View data - California
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Grad rate—Admit rate—Enrollment140Net price—View data - California
Meridian University
Grad rate—Admit rate—Enrollment297Net price—View data - California
Five Branches University
Grad rate—Admit rate—Enrollment321Net price—View data - California
University of East-West Medicine
Grad rate—Admit rate—Enrollment81Net price—View data
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