College profile
Santa Monica College
CA · Public · Small city
ℹ️ A note about this profile
Santa Monica College doesn't publish standardized-test bands or admit-rate data to IPEDS. That usually means the institution is open-admission (no selectivity gate), graduate-focused, or small enough that the federal survey suppresses the numbers. What we do have below: published tuition, enrollment, degrees awarded by major. If you had a different, more selective institution in mind, the search at the top of the page will find it.
Parent/student verdict
Selectivity unknownMajor value play for in-state residents.
Best for
- In-state residents (tuition ~$1,156 — major value play)
The reality
- Out-of-state tuition is 9.3× the in-state rate
Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price with aid and at full price, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
Sticker price isn't every family's price. Lower- and middle-income families often pay materially less after grants — and there's no income cutoff for need-based aidGrant money based on your family's finances (via FAFSA and the college's own forms), not your student's stats., so at expensive schools even families earning $150–200K can qualify. Where need aid thins out, merit scholarships (where offered) bring the price down instead. Check the school's own net-price calculator for your number.
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
The real cost
What Santa Monica College actually costs
The federal file doesn't carry net-price figures for Santa Monica College, so the published tuition above is the only price we can show you — and it's the price before any aid. That's a gap in the government's data, not a sign this college is expensive or stingy.
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Source: federal IPEDS (published tuition) and College Scorecard, which reports net price only for colleges meeting its cohort-size and Title-IV reporting thresholds.
What students study here
Most popular majors at Santa Monica College
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what Santa Monica College actually graduates — not just what it markets.
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →
Student body & economic mobility
Who attends here — and what the campus adds.
Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.
Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →
AI program signal
AI + computing education at Santa Monica College
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Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to Santa Monica College?
6 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name Santa Monica College on it. Between them they printed 8 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at Santa Monica College, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.
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Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantSanta Monica College is a public four-year college in CA.
Tuition: $1,156 in-state, $10,708 out-of-state (net price with aid not reported).
Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 23% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 19% of those reached the top fifth as adults.
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Santa Monica College: 6, 8 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Harvard-Westlake School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, BY THE CLASSES OF 2021-2025, counted column "CLASS OF '25"); Blair Academy (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); McDonogh School (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). 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/santa-monica-college.
Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/santa-monica-college.json