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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $509,900 ahead with aid, $398,888 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($108,157); Mechanical Engineering ($105,046); Computer Engineering ($96,506).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 8% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 31% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Nursing: freshmen enter as pre-nursing and apply into the program later; NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate 86.6% (2024/2025, California Board of Registered Nursing).","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name California Baptist University: 5, 12 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Saint Joseph-Notre Dame High School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Santa Margarita Catholic High School (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Punahou School (0.8 per class year, 3 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 \u2013 2025)). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/california-baptist-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/california-baptist-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":22298},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":21941},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":22620},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":26179}],"full_price":54038,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":26285,"npc_url":"https://calbaptist.studentaidcalculator.com/welcome.aspx","tuition_in_state":41228,"tuition_out_of_state":41228},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":61504,"median_6yr_after_entry":52336},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":0,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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