San Joaquin
Valley College-Ontario
For-profit Community College in Ontario, CA. Six-year graduation rate 64%. Median 10-year earnings $38,317.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $38,317, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Six-year completion sits at 64%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $10,674, a light load against those earnings.
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
Completion is middling: 64% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 75% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a for-profit two-year institution. 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 — 1,525 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 1,422 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $26,743 annually once grants are applied. Net price varies modestly by income — $26,201 at $0–30k against $30,570 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 57% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,806 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 64% 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 · 405 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 | $26,201 |
| $30–48k | $26,367 |
| $48–75k | $26,893 |
| $75–110k | $29,415 |
| $110k+ | $30,570 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 909 of these 1,422 students, totalling $6,367,628 — an average of $7,005 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Bernardino County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026