About
San Joaquin Valley College (SJVC) is a private for-profit college with locations in California and an online division. SJVC was founded in 1977 by Robert and Shirley Perry. The college offers certificates, Associate of Science degrees, and continuing education opportunities in the criminal justice and industrial trade fields.
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 SJVC
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.
SJVC vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions SJVC 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSan Joaquin Valley College-Santa Maria | 63% | — | 114 | $20,549 | — |
American College of Healthcare and Technology | — | — | 272 | $15,115 | — |
AMG School of Nursing | — | — | 552 | $33,363 | — |
ATA College | — | 23.1% | 193 | $22,680 | — |
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Indianapolis | — | — | 172 | $30,293 | — |
California Career Institute | — | 73.9% | 628 | — | — |
Concorde Career College-Southaven | — | 100.0% | 115 | $22,064 | — |
Contra Costa Medical Career College | — | — | 556 | — | — |
Dorsey College-Dearborn | — | — | 430 | $22,173 | — |
Galen Health Institutes-Richmond | — | — | 454 | $40,766 | — |
Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield | — | — | 493 | $49,781 | — |
Infinity College | — | — | 179 | — | — |
Institute of Culinary Education | — | — | 553 | — | — |
Interactive College of Technology-Newport | — | — | 101 | $15,239 | — |
Lamson Institute | — | — | 498 | $24,617 | — |
Mariano Moreno Culinary Institute | — | — | 108 | $14,004 | — |
Miller-Motte College-Tulsa | — | — | 389 | $23,107 | — |
North-West College-Anaheim | — | 100.0% | 513 | $31,140 | — |
North-West College-Long Beach | — | 100.0% | 652 | $32,474 | — |
Ohio Medical Career College | — | — | 129 | $16,023 | — |
Pima Medical Institute-San Antonio | — | — | 424 | $21,497 | — |
Pinnacle Career Institute | — | — | 619 | $19,024 | — |
PITC Institute | — | — | 282 | $19,304 | — |
Premiere Career College | — | — | 105 | $23,214 | — |
Ross College-Grand Rapids North | — | — | 387 | $21,770 | — |
San Joaquin Valley College-Rancho Mirage | — | — | 342 | $24,175 | — |
Southeastern College-Charlotte | — | 93.7% | 252 | $36,058 | — |
Southern Careers Institute-Waco | — | — | 185 | $22,657 | — |
Universal Technical Institute-South Florida Miramar | — | — | 791 | $25,637 | — |
Valley College-Beckley | — | — | 165 | $24,526 | — |
| Peer group median | 63% | 96.8% | 365 | $22,894 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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