Marshall B Ketchum University
About
Marshall B. Ketchum University is a private university focused on graduate programs in healthcare and located in Fullerton, California. MBKU expanded from the Southern California College of Optometry which was founded in 1904. The university was officially established as a multidisciplinary university with the addition of School of PA Studies in 2011 and College of Pharmacy in 2013. Along with Hope International University, the campus bookends the north and south sides of the Cal State Fullerton campus respectively.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 5 Title IV programs, 2 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
- Passing2 · 40.0%
- No Data3 · 60.0%
- 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.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
WASC Senior College and University Commission
Programmatic accreditations · 5
Action history · 9
- Aug 2025Grant Substantive Change: ProgramWASC Senior College and University Commission
- Oct 2024Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Optometric Association, Accreditation Council on Optometric Education · Optometry (OPTR) - Residency programs
- Mar 2023Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Optometric Association, Accreditation Council on Optometric Education · Optometry (OPT) - Professional degree programs
- Feb 2023Renewal of AccreditationWASC Senior College and University Commission
- Jun 2022Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Council for Pharmacy Education · Pharmacy (PHAR) - Professional degree programs
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 $19.3M 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 123 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 Marshall B Ketchum
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
Marshall B Ketchum vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Marshall B Ketchum 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectMarshall B Ketchum University | — | — | 653 | — | — |
Adler University | — | — | 1,631 | — | — |
AdventHealth University | 37% | 33.7% | 1,861 | $31,885 | — |
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | 57% | 52.7% | 908 | $26,027 | — |
Baptist Health Sciences University | 38% | 82.0% | 891 | $13,401 | — |
Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing | — | — | 539 | — | — |
Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science | 30% | 38.7% | 852 | $27,789 | — |
Clarkson College | 36% | 78.2% | 1,121 | $15,928 | — |
Cox College | 100% | 100.0% | 724 | — | — |
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University | 44% | 98.7% | 1,191 | $17,797 | — |
Frontier Nursing University | — | — | 2,664 | — | — |
Herzing University-Kenosha | 70% | 92.0% | 526 | $17,613 | — |
Herzing University-Minneapolis | 36% | 93.8% | 748 | $15,205 | — |
Kettering College | 63% | 76.5% | 757 | $15,156 | — |
Logan University | 22% | 64.3% | 1,406 | $18,094 | — |
MCPHS University | 61% | 85.2% | 5,945 | $35,084 | — |
Mercy College of Health Sciences | 67% | 99.7% | 869 | $23,417 | — |
MGH Institute of Health Professions | — | — | 1,672 | — | — |
Mount Carmel College of Nursing | 54% | 84.3% | 670 | $12,939 | — |
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health | 49% | 73.4% | 1,067 | $19,474 | — |
Northwestern Health Sciences University | — | — | 1,101 | $29,794 | — |
Palmer College of Chiropractic | — | 100.0% | 2,161 | — | — |
Palo Alto University | — | — | 1,065 | — | — |
Roseman University of Health Sciences | — | — | 1,367 | — | — |
Salus University | — | — | 1,106 | — | — |
Samuel Merritt University | — | — | 1,926 | — | — |
Southern California University of Health Sciences | — | — | 2,008 | $45,633 | — |
The Chicago School at Chicago | — | 34.5% | 1,100 | — | — |
The Chicago School at Los Angeles | 0% | 46.3% | 3,344 | — | — |
The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences | 50% | 58.9% | 717 | $19,462 | — |
William James College | — | — | 967 | — | — |
| Peer group median | 49% | 78.2% | 1,100 | $19,462 |
Marshall B Ketchum Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
- Neil BirtDirector of Institutional Research and Assessment
- Ajoy KoomerDirector, Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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