San Joaquin
Valley College-Delano
For-profit College in Delano, CA. Median 10-year earnings $38,317.
Students who entered San Joaquin Valley College-Delano reach a median of $38,317 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Graduates leave owing a median of $10,674 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.28 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. First-year retention is 73% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. A 35:1 ratio means students need to be deliberate about getting faculty time. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 128 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 128 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,032 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($21,535 versus $26,706), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 84% get grants averaging $4,432, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Most students borrow — 85% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 51 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 | $21,535 |
| $30–48k | $21,018 |
| $48–75k | $20,548 |
| $75–110k | $20,248 |
| $110k+ | $26,706 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 109 of these 128 students, totalling $584,137 — an average of $5,359 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kern County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026