Five Branches University
About
Five Branches University is a graduate school located in Santa Cruz and San Jose, California, focusing on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The institution offers various master's and doctoral programs in the field. The founding year is not explicitly mentioned.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 3 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 3 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data3 · 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 · 1
- Aug 2023Approved for Distance EducationAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
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 $2.5M 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 43 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) 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 Five Branches
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
- Public property1
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Five Branches vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Five Branches 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectFive Branches University | — | — | 321 | — | — |
Alhambra Medical University | — | — | 140 | — | — |
American Academy of Health and Wellness | — | — | 29 | — | — |
American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Med | — | — | 76 | — | — |
AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine | — | — | — | — | — |
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine | — | — | 19 | — | — |
California Health Sciences University | — | — | 607 | — | — |
Careers Unlimited | — | — | 118 | — | — |
Chamberlain University-Indiana | 0% | 100.0% | 144 | $36,219 | — |
Chamberlain University-Missouri | 100% | 100.0% | 284 | $34,947 | — |
Chamberlain University-Nevada | 20% | 76.5% | 652 | $40,925 | — |
Chamberlain University-North Carolina | 0% | 100.0% | 202 | $21,664 | — |
Chamberlain University-Ohio | 29% | 87.5% | 257 | $32,074 | — |
Colorado Chinese Medicine University | — | — | 89 | — | — |
Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts | — | — | 102 | — | — |
Eagle Gate College-Layton | 42% | — | 226 | $32,097 | — |
Eagle Gate College-Murray | 25% | — | 410 | $28,945 | — |
East West College of Natural Medicine | 100% | — | 27 | — | — |
Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine | — | — | 42 | — | — |
Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine | — | — | 150 | — | — |
Florida College of Integrative Medicine | — | — | 54 | — | — |
Institute of Clinical Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine | — | — | 61 | — | — |
John Patrick University of Health and Applied Sciences | — | 82.4% | 674 | $23,304 | — |
Meridian University | — | — | 297 | — | — |
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Racine | — | — | 37 | — | — |
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Skokie | — | — | 30 | — | — |
Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture | — | — | 118 | — | — |
Platt College-Aurora | 0% | 36.4% | — | $42,287 | — |
Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis | — | — | 164 | — | — |
Research College of Nursing | — | — | 205 | — | — |
South University-High Point | 0% | — | 67 | $27,634 | — |
South University-Richmond | 33% | — | 395 | $26,205 | — |
Texas Health and Science University | — | — | 92 | — | — |
University of East-West Medicine | — | — | 81 | — | — |
| Peer group median | 25% | 87.5% | 129 | $32,074 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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