San Joaquin
Valley College-Porterville
For-profit College in Porterville, CA. Median 10-year earnings $38,317.
Students who entered San Joaquin Valley College-Porterville reach a median of $38,317 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,674.
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
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Retention of 71% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 39:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 146 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $23,597 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $23,899 at $0–30k, $29,788 at $110k+. 84% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,030 — common but not automatic. 84% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 70 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 | $23,899 |
| $30–48k | $21,922 |
| $48–75k | $24,527 |
| $75–110k | $26,090 |
| $110k+ | $29,788 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 123 of these 146 students, totalling $765,598 — an average of $6,224 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Tulare County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026