North-West College-San Diego

San Diego, CA · For-profit · 636 undergrads · website ↗

36% Hispanic undergrads
Open admission
$100 application fee

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

Not published

This college doesn't report a transfer rate to the Department of Education. That means unknown — not zero. Ask them directly.

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$45,058
$30,000 – $48,000	$46,341
$48,000 – $75,000	$46,745
$75,000 – $110,000	$48,695
Over $110,000	$49,552
All incomes (average)	$46,503

These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use North-West College-San Diego's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.

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Outcomes

Completion rate: —
Students with Pell grants: 47%
Earnings @ 10yr: $41,472
Median debt: $9,500

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Open admission
Application fee: $100
Students per faculty member: 27 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: —

What students study

Health & Nursing100%

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (2)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	99	$105,883	$107,406national $80,813	$30,500
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions	6	—	—national $65,389	$20,572

Undergraduate certificates (3)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services	46	$32,874	$33,655national $34,272	$9,319
Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants	32	$63,217	$68,220national $56,073	$18,075
Health and Medical Administrative Services	5	$36,799	$37,158national $35,447	$9,500

Bachelor's degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	6	$122,955	—national $88,910	—

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. These figures are calculated for all 7 campuses that share this college's federal student-aid ID, so a branch campus shows its institution's figures.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in CA

Feather River Community College DistrictQuincy20.7%San Diego Mesa CollegeSan Diego15.7%Shasta CollegeRedding15%Santa Monica CollegeSanta Monica14.9%Moorpark CollegeMoorpark13.9%MiraCosta CollegeOceanside9.9%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 6106 Arosa St, San Diego, CA 92115-1506
Phone: (858) 715-1123
Institutional accreditor: Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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