Summit College
About
Summit College is a vocational institution located in Southern California, established in 1991. It has four campuses in San Bernardino, Colton, Santa Ana, and El Cajon, offering programs primarily in allied health and trade & technical fields. The college focuses on providing hands-on training and accelerated programs to prepare students for careers with long-term earning potential.
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.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 7 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 7 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data7 · 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.
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.
Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
Action history · 4
- Apr 2025Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
- May 2022Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
- May 2021Grant Substantive Change: ProgramAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
- Dec 2019Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training
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.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 1,028 students received $4.9M in Pell grants, alongside $5.8M 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 882 borrowers who entered repayment, 48 (5.4%) defaulted within three years — above 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 Summit College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
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
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Summit College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Summit College 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSummit College | 62% | — | 989 | $24,161 | — |
All-State Career School-Pittsburgh | — | — | 410 | $13,066 | — |
All-State Career-Baltimore | — | — | 563 | $19,553 | — |
Apex Technical School | — | — | 1,400 | $16,076 | — |
Arclabs | — | — | 744 | $24,965 | — |
Automotive Training Center-Exton | — | — | 366 | $11,732 | — |
Delta Technical College-Mississippi | — | — | 2,307 | $16,771 | — |
International Air and Hospitality Academy | — | — | — | $26,404 | — |
Lincoln Technical Institute-East Windsor | — | — | 1,008 | $26,269 | — |
Lincoln Technical Institute-Mahwah | — | — | 1,080 | $29,211 | — |
Lincoln Technical Institute-Union | — | — | 1,785 | $25,407 | — |
Lincoln Technical Institute-Whitestone | — | — | 1,131 | $32,648 | — |
Midwest Technical Institute-Missouri | — | — | 396 | $23,412 | — |
Miller-Motte College-STVT-San Antonio | — | — | 762 | $21,496 | — |
National Aviation Academy of Tampa Bay | — | — | 713 | $28,485 | — |
New England Tractor Trailer Training School of Connecticut | — | — | 289 | $15,448 | — |
New England Tractor Trailer Training School of CT-Bridgeport | — | — | 428 | $16,151 | — |
New England Tractor Trailer Training School of Massachusetts | — | — | 430 | $15,735 | — |
New England Tractor Trailer Training School of Rhode Island | — | — | 646 | $15,411 | — |
North American Trade Schools | — | — | 534 | $11,812 | — |
Pennco Tech-Blackwood | — | — | 875 | $22,036 | — |
South Texas Vocational Technical Institute-Weslaco | — | — | 521 | $19,268 | — |
Tulsa Welding School-Houston | — | — | 1,962 | $32,907 | — |
Tulsa Welding School-Jacksonville | — | — | 968 | $32,599 | — |
UEI College-West Covina | — | — | 978 | $25,924 | — |
Universal Technical Institute of Illinois Inc | — | — | 1,156 | $24,971 | — |
Universal Technical Institute-Bloomfield | — | — | 1,428 | $26,052 | — |
| Peer group median | 62% | — | 819 | $23,412 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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