Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
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Overview
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria is located in a midsized city with a population at least 100,000, but less than 250,000. It is in the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara CA area.
Highlights
Undergraduate program with the highest reported starting salary ($54K): Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants
Largest undergraduate program (33): Medical/Clinical Assistant
Address
303 E Plaza Dr Ste 1
Santa Maria, CA 93454
sbbcollege.edu
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Institutional Control
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria is a private for-profit organization and is related to other schools.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria holds an accreditation from one of the national accreditors. Credits earned from the national accreditors are often not accepted by schools holding the more prestigious regional accreditation, and it's important to verify that your credits will transfer if you are considering an eventual switch to another school.
Accreditation History
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (Accredited April 26, 2018 - present)
  • The next accreditation review is scheduled for April 30, 2023.
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (Accredited January 1, 1976 - July 7, 2020)
  • The acccreditation was ceased for the following reason: Voluntary Withdrawal
Undergraduate Students
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Open Admissions
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria is an open admissions school and accepts any student who applies.
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Admissions Details
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Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
Application Fee & Common App
Application Fee & Common App
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria has an undergraduate application fee of $100. We did not find Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria on the Common Application site. Keep in mind that it never hurts to inquire with an Admissions office to see whether they might be willing to waive your application fee.
Credits accepted from new students
Credits accepted from new students
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria accepts the following credits:
  • Open admission (school accepts any student who applies)
Programs
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria program offerings
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1-2 Year Certificate
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Costs
Undergraduate costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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Historic Annual Costs
See how this school's published costs have changed over the years, and how their cost trends compare with other private schools.
Published costs may have little to do with what you actually pay

It's important to remember that a school's published costs may not be indicative of what it will actually cost to attend. Time magazine wrote about this in their article Yes, you can get a college to cut its tuition price. Nonetheless, this inflation-adjusted look at the historic annual costs for tuition, fees, books, and supplies can give you an idea of the costs you might expect in the coming years. Comparing the total costs inclusive of room and board (if applicable) with the annual net price estimates in the previous tab will help you determine the financial aid package to expect.

Private and public universities' charges are difficult to compare due to the in-state and out-of-state price differences of public universities, and therefore we only compare Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria to other private schools within your chosen context group.

Undergraduate tuition, fees, books, and supplies over time
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Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
On the blue curve, we see how the published annual cost to attend Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria has changed over the years.
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The shading shows the spread of the annual cost for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Financial Aid
Financial aid overview

Understanding the rules and process that determine who gets financial aid can be intimidating. Here are some quick links to help:

  • Visit Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria's Net Price Calculator for the most accurate estimate of your anticipated costs. Every school publishes a Net Price Calculator that does its best to give you a fair estimate of what you might expect to pay. Many calculators consider your high school record as part of the calculation. This will be far more accurate than any of the averages or published tuition values that you see here.
  • FederalStudentAid, a government site that will walk you through the federal financial aid process. There are a number of kinds of student loans and other aid, and this site can walk you through all of the choices you will need to make.

Undergraduate Outcomes
Graduation Rate
All undergraduate students were full-time with about 48% of them attending college for the first time. In the last reporting year, 57% of students, including those who were part-time or transfer students, received a degree within 8 years.
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Loan Status
This donut shows the percentage of students who are in good standing (green) in repaying any federal student loans five years after leaving Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria.
Status of loans
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Suspended (usually for hardship)
More than 90 days late in paying
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Context: Loans with good standing
About 79% of the context schools have better performance, suggesting that Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria's alumni earnings-to-debt ratios are low compared to the context schools' alumni.
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Are students graduating on time?
Let us tell you all about low graduation rates!

Across the country, graduation rates are surprisingly low. In fact, Forbes Magazine suggests that they are unacceptably low. However, from another point of view, sometimes graduation rates simply reflect the relative preparation of the students who enter. Colleges with a mission to help people coming from less advantaged backgrounds, such as first-generation and low-income students, may have low graduation rates despite relatively strong outcomes for students who face many obstacles to success. Without the context provided in these views of completion rates, it can be tricky to separate predatory schools that take financial advantage of under-prepared students from those that are actively seeking to encourage and help those students.

For the consumer choosing a school, once you have narrowed your list to those schools that you can afford and that seem likely to admit you, consider the outcome measures in this section and choose the specific measures that best describe your plans. Very simply, schools with high graduation rates and high loan repayment rates will likely give you the best opportunity to succeed.

Context: the impact of wealth and transfer status on degree completion
We took a close look lagging success for students with financial need in a case study. Here's a chance to compare schools based on student successes with a better appreciation of how circumstances may impact success. One word of caution: the statistics for some categories may consist of only a handful of students -- see the details by hovering or long-pressing on the bars.
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Percentage with Pell Grants
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Context and trends: Repayment Rate
How much progress do you think you'll be able to make towards paying down your college loans seven years after leaving school? In our research, we discovered that a surprisingly large number of students don't default on their loans, but also aren't making progress in paying down their principal amount. The percentages here count alumni who have decreased their loan amounts by at least $1.
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Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
On the blue curve, we see the percentage of alumni from Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria who have successfully reduced their federal school loans by at least $1 by the date shown, which is 7 years after leaving the school.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the loan repayment rate for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Context and trends: are the loan default rates as small as possible?
The default rate is the percentage of students who are already delinquent on their loans within three years of leaving the school. If a school has a high default rate, that sends an alarm out that the students' educations are not sufficient to earn enough to repay those loans. Read below for details on the typical loan burden, and keep in mind that a low default rate may be more important than loan amounts in predicting your future success.
201420152016201720180%5%10%15%20%25%Former students with loan payment failure
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On the blue curve, we see the percentage of alumni from Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria who have defaulted on their federal school loans within 3 years ending on the date shown.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the 3-year loan default rate for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Loan burden
At Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria, 89% of full-time degree-seeking freshmen receive federal student loans, averaging $9,500 each in just the freshman year. We have much more details about the full loan burden students experience in our Cost and Financial Aid Section.
Context: Percentage of freshmen with federal loans
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Context: Average freshman federal loan amount
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Alumni earnings compared to same-aged Americans
The blue curve shows the earnings of this school's alumni -- so a high curve indicates this school is setting its students up for success!
More information about earnings data

How might your earnings compare with other people your age? Opportunity Insights used IRS data to track almost every person born in the US in the years 1980 to 1991, and they ranked the mean (average) 2014 earnings of students who attended Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria in comparison to all people in the US the same age. Although this data is now a little old, the scope of this project was awesome and gives us a glimpse at alumni performance that we cannot find until a new study of this incredible magnitude is performed.

You might notice a little earnings dip at young ages for some of the top bachelor's institutions. This coincides with the years that many alumni may be in graduate school and earning less.

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Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
In the blue curve, we see how the average earnings percentile for this school changes as its alumni age as compared to like-aged Americans without regard to their educational background.
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The shading shows the spread of these average alumni earnings percentiles for context schools: dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools and light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria equality data is combined with:Santa Barbara Business College-BakersfieldCalifornia Aeronautical University
Wealth mobility at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
We may wonder if, as a result of attending a given college, we will have a better chance for higher earnings. Opportunity Insights sought to answer this question by following the wealth story of every student for whom income information was available.
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How does wealth change after attendance?

Opportunity Insights studied groups of all children born in the US in the same year for each birth year from 1980 to 1991. This grouping included every single US child who had a valid SSN or ITIN (tax identification number) and could be linked to parents with non-negative income.

Family Income

The incomes of all families in a birth year group are measured when the child is 15-19 and these incomes are averaged. The calculated incomes from all families in the group were arranged from smallest to largest, and divided into five groups of equal size. On the left of the diagram, you can see the relative distribution of Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria's students between the family income divided into fifths formed by looking at the entire US group.

Individual Student Earnings

In 2014, all people from the same birth year were divided into a new set of five groups that were determined by their individual labor earnings for that year. The students from this birth year who primarily attended Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria between the ages of 19 and 22 were divided into these five groups, and the percent in each group is shown on the right of the diagram.

The diagram lets you see the proportion in each original income group who travel to each earnings group, and provides some insight into the likelihood of financial success after attendance.

If you'd like to understand the nitty gritty details of this interesting data, be sure to check out the well-written Opportunity Insights report by selecting SOURCES under the figure.

Below, we can see the percentage from each initial family wealth group who attend this college, and also the alumni's relative wealth later. Do students entering college from the bottom twenty percent of family income end up making it to a higher level? Do the top twenty percent stay at the top? Follow the colors, left to right, and see for yourself.
$24,300$45,100$72,900$110,300$900$18,500$35,200$55,800Lowest 20%Second-lowestMiddleSecond-highestHighest 20%Highest 20%Second-highestMiddleSecond-lowest Lowest 20%Family IncomeStudent Income
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria equality data is combined with:Santa Barbara Business College-BakersfieldCalifornia Aeronautical University
Classroom Experience
Student attention at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Full-time and long-term instructors at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria has 21% full-time instructors, and 87% of the context schools have a higher percentage of full-time instructors. Faculty with multi-year contracts provide additional stability and commitment to the school and its students.Within the full-time instructors at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, only 31% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
Full-time instructors
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Campus Safety
Crime at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria
Check out the number of disciplinary actions (implemented within the school) and arrests (implemented by law enforcement external to the school)
Disciplinary Actions
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Average number of disciplinary violoations at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
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Average number of arrests at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
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Criminal Offenses
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Context: Criminal Offenses
Average number of criminal offenses at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
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Housing
No Student Housing Available
This school does not report any housing for students.
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Activities and Services
Special academic opportunities
  • Weekend college
Undergraduate services offered
  • Remedial services
  • Academic/career counseling services
  • Employment services for current students
  • Placement services for program completers
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Programs for Veterans
If you are a veteran, it's worth digging around to find a military-friendly campus. We think this article about how colleges might help veterans might be a good starting point for questions to ask the Admissions office before you choose to attend. It's also good to be aware that many for-profit schools are behaving as predators, hungry for GI Bill dollars. Watching out for those schools is no different for veterans than for all students: judge very critically using our "Student Satisfaction and Success" tab for undergraduate programs. We wish we had the same data to support graduate programs; however, we think the undergraduate data is a good starting point for judging overall quality.
  • Credit for Military Training
  • Dedicated point of contact for support services for veterans, military servicemembers, and their families
  • Member of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges
  • Yellow Ribbon Program
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Student Body
Study Types
All students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
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Context: Student body size
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria enrolled 174 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than 75% of the context schools.
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Undergraduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
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Undergraduate student race/origin
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria reports that 88% of students are minority, which is more than 87% of the context schools. This school's 0 of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria.
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Context: Percentage of women
With 79% women students, Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria has a higher percentage of women than 65% of context schools.
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Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
1%9%83%2%2%2%0%20%40%60%80%100%American IndianMultiracialInternationalBlackPacific IslanderAsianNot ReportedWhiteHispanic
Freshman residences

A high proportion of international and out-of-state students speaks to reputation and offers an opportunity for diverse interactions in and out of class.

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Student age distribution
The age distribution at a school can tell you a lot about its mission. If you're looking for a traditional undergraduate experience, you may prefer to see students who are mostly younger than 25 (lighter shades), but if you want support as a returning student, a large number of students 25 and older (darker shades) may better suit your needs.
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School Finances
Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
Instructional spending
Student services spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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On the blue curve, we see how the instructional expenses per student at Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria have changed over the years.
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The shading shows the spread of the instructional expenses per student for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?

Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria is a private for-profit school, meaning that its annual goal is to make a profit for its shareholders. The other types of schools are public or not-for-profit, and profit is not a goal.

Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Santa Barbara Business College - Santa Maria into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot.
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