California Miramar University
For-profit College in San Diego, CA. Six-year graduation rate 50%.
The six-year graduation rate is 50%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Debt is the pressure point: a median of $31,000 at graduation.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 18% means admission is the exception — plan accordingly. With 379 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. 71% of admitted students actually enroll, which is a high yield by national standards.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 50% finish inside six years. First-year retention of 92% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. With 50% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. The 10:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 66 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $12,480 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The income table below is the number that matters — $9,131 at $0–30k versus $17,467 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 58% of students at an average of $5,464. About 48% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 14 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $9,131 |
| $30–48k | $15,369 |
| $48–75k | $17,425 |
| $75–110k | $16,995 |
| $110k+ | $17,467 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 32 of these 66 students, totalling $203,881 — an average of $6,371 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Diego County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)