About
Los Angeles College of Music is a private for-profit music college in Pasadena, in Los Angeles County, California. It has been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music since 2003. More than 1000 students have graduated from the school, about half of them from outside the United States.
Admissions & acceptance rate
How selective is this institution, and how many admitted students choose to enroll?
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.
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.
Academic programs at Los Angeles College of Music
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
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Los Angeles College of Music vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Los Angeles College of Music 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectLos Angeles College of Music | 41% | — | 261 | $40,853 | — |
American Academy of Art College | 45% | — | — | $34,298 | — |
Design Institute of San Diego | 80% | 100.0% | 94 | $31,293 | — |
Five Towns College | 55% | 53.8% | 974 | $20,799 | — |
Gnomon | 100% | 41.8% | 526 | $45,824 | — |
Los Angeles Film School | 34% | — | 5,472 | $33,130 | — |
New York Film Academy | 68% | — | 1,132 | $46,420 | — |
Northwest College of Art & Design | 58% | 66.0% | 139 | $20,185 | — |
Nossi College of Art and Design | 42% | 46.3% | 247 | $23,591 | — |
Seattle Film Institute | — | — | 85 | $41,429 | — |
Sotheby's Institute of Art-NY | — | — | 188 | — | — |
| Peer group median | 55% | 53.8% | 254 | $33,714 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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