Pacific College

Costa Mesa, CA · For-profit · 225 undergrads · website ↗

47% Hispanic undergrads
Test scores not considered
$100 application fee

Does anyone get out?

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

of students transfer to a four-year institution

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$29,386
$30,000 – $48,000	$29,331
$48,000 – $75,000	—
$75,000 – $110,000	—
Over $110,000	—
All incomes (average)	$29,363

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

Net price calculator ↗

Outcomes

Completion rate: 63%
Students with Pell grants: 28%
Earnings @ 10yr: $70,064
Median debt: $22,469

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Not considered
Application fee: $100
Students per faculty member: 9 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 6%
Open admission: No

What students study

Health & Nursing99%

Business1%

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
Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants	59	$54,755	$67,162national $62,755	$25,250
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	52	—	—national $80,813	$20,000

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	26	—	$132,148national $88,910	$32,611

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 5 more programmes at this college have every figure suppressed and are not listed.

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: 3160 Red Hill Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92626-3402
Phone: (714) 662-4402
Institutional accreditor: Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior Colleges and University Commission

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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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