California 4-Years Colleges With The Lowest Graduation Rate

Los Angeles Mission College has the lowest graduation rate, which is the percentage of graduate candidates who complete their degree or certificate within 150 percent of normal time (for example, within 6 years for 4-years BS degree). Its graduatation rate was 20% last year.

Bakersfield College with 21% and Shasta College with 23% of graduation rates followed it in the ranking of California 4-Years Colleges with the Lowest Graduation Rate.

For the ranking, we exclude schools with fewer than 5,000 students.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $10,565 and graduate tuition & fees is - for the academic year 2024-2025.

Table. California 4-Years Colleges With The Lowest Graduation Rate Comparison
	School Name	Graduation Rate	Undergraduate Tuition & Fees	Yield	Acceptance Rate	SAT Score	Total Population	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 8	Los Angeles Mission College Sylmar, CAPublic, 4-year	20.00% 10.00%	$10,572 ($1,238)	-	-	-	10,690	32 to 1
2 -	Bakersfield College Bakersfield, CAPublic, 4-year	21.00% 1.00%	$11,300 ($1,430)	-	-	-	30,746	31 to 1
3 5	Shasta College Redding, CAPublic, 4-year	23.00% 6.00%	$8,853 ($1,197)	-	-	-	9,073	28 to 1
4 2	Fresno City College Fresno, CAPublic, 4-year	24.00% 4.00%	$8,638 ($1,378)	-	-	-	28,071	29 to 1
5 -	Rio Hondo College Whittier, CAPublic, 4-year	25.00% 2.00%	$9,884 ($1,388)	-	-	-	17,441	31 to 1
6 5	West Los Angeles College Culver City, CAPublic, 4-year	28.00% 7.00%	$10,572 ($1,238)	-	-	-	9,255	26 to 1
7 3	Modesto Junior College Modesto, CAPublic, 4-year	30.00% 4.00%	$9,264 ($1,282)	-	-	-	18,258	32 to 1
7 4	San Diego City College San Diego, CAPublic, 4-year	30.00% 6.00%	$10,002 ($1,146)	-	-	-	13,242	22 to 1
9 3	Cerritos College Norwalk, CAPublic, 4-year	31.00% 3.00%	$12,004 ($1,364)	-	-	-	21,859	26 to 1
9 9	Crafton Hills College Yucaipa, CAPublic, 4-year	31.00% 5.00%	$14,556 ($1,188)	-	-	-	6,768	19 to 1
	Average	26.30%	$10,565 ($1,285)	-	-	-	16,540	28 to 1

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