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Overview
CBD College is located in a large city with a population of more than 250,000. It is in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim CA area.
Highlights
Undergraduate program with the highest reported starting salary ($43K): Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services
Largest undergraduate program (110): Diagnostic Medical Sonography/Sonographer and Ultrasound Technician
Institutional Control
CBD College is a private not-for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
CBD College 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. Please read below for concerns we found in the accreditation records.
Accreditation History
Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (Accredited July 1, 1997 - October 15, 2015)
Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (Accredited August 3, 2015 - present)
- The accreditation was recently renewed on February 5, 2019.
- The next accreditation review is scheduled for February 28, 2022.
- A prior accreditation probation was resolved on August 12, 2020, and we believe the school should now be in compliance.
- A prior accreditation warning was resolved on February 12, 2021, and we believe the school should now be in compliance.
Undergraduate Students
Not all students attend their first college full time to completion. While some schools are focused on those that population, many schools focus on transfer and or part time students. What types of of student does this school support.
Full-time first-time students
Full-time transfer students
Part-time first-time students
Part-time transfer students
Admissions
Open Admissions
CBD College is an open admissions school and accepts any student who applies.
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Admissions Details
Here are some important dates and little tidbits. Please double-check this information on the CBD College's webpage for the most up-to-date and accurate answers! We update this information with each school's annual reporting, but information can change unexpectedly. Select any item to view the details.
Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
Application Fee & Common App
Credits accepted from new students
Programs
CBD College program offerings
What award level are you pursuing?
Associate's Degree
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Program Size (Completions)
Health Support
Costs
Current Program Costs
Schools report total costs for (up to) their six largest career-oriented programs. You can explore the costs by selecting the "+" symbol for programs that interest you. The average months to complete apply to full-time students. Additionally, if program length is reported in contact hours, then the time literally represents time with an instructor. Alternatively, credit hours approximate instructional time, but are not inclusive of total time spent by students in learning.
The cost details offer you comparisons to the costs of similar programs available in your context group. However, schools offering similar programs often have slightly different times to complete, and therefore we have grouped all programs that are 6 or fewer months, over 6 to 12 months, over 12 to 18 months, and more than 18 months. You can find the other schools offering this program using our school explorer.
You will find the most up-to-date information at this school's website for admissions.
Diagnostic Medical Sonography/Sonographer and Ultrasound Technician (22 Months)
This program is CBD College's 1st largest program. On average, students take 22 months of full-time study to complete the required 2250 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Diagnostic Medical Sonography/Sonographer and Ultrasound Technician certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 18 months to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$1,358
$38,635
Context: costs of similar programs
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Technology/Technician (16 Months)
Medical/Clinical Assistant (10 Months)
This program is CBD College's 6th largest program. On average, students take 10 months of full-time study to complete the required 920 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Medical/Clinical Assistant certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 6 months and up to a full year to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$334
$15,163
Context: costs of similar programs
Occupational Therapist Assistant (20 Months)
This program is CBD College's 4th largest program. On average, students take 20 months of full-time study to complete the required 1874 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Occupational Therapist Assistant certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 18 months to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$1,953
$48,041
Context: costs of similar programs
Physical Therapy Technician/Assistant (20 Months)
This program is CBD College's 3rd largest program. On average, students take 20 months of full-time study to complete the required 1820 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Physical Therapy Technician/Assistant certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 18 months to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$1,875
$48,070
Context: costs of similar programs
Surgical Technology/Technologist (15 Months)
This program is CBD College's 5th largest program. On average, students take 15 months of full-time study to complete the required 1520 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Surgical Technology/Technologist certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than a year but less than 18 months to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$742
$25,047
Context: costs of similar programs
Area living cost estimates
The following cost of living estimates apply to this school's largest program and should reflect the cost for an academic year. We would expect that these costs of living estimates would be uniform across programs, and we additionally recommend that you double-check the estimates through a different source. We found that schools have wildly different estimates of living expenses within the same areas.
Expense type
Miscellaneous costs when living off campus with family
Miscellaneous costs when living off campus without family
Off-campus room and board
Amount
$12,599
$12,599
$36,034
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Historic Costs by Program
You can explore the programs and corresponding lengths and costs offered over the past ten years using the drop-down menu below the graph. The programs only appear if they were one of the six largest programs offered that year. All dollar amounts have been adjusted for inflation.
Program and length
Diagnostic Medical Sonography/Sonographer and Ultrasound Technician (21 months)
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
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Net price: the best estimate for the cost to attend
Most schools publish tuition rates that give them room to offer both scholarships and financial aid where applicable. Your best estimate of what might pay is to see what others with similar family incomes have paid. A more tailored and accurate estimate is available at this school's net price calculator.
Understanding net price
With their net price calculators, many colleges and universities give an idea of what merit-based aid might accompany need-based aid. For schools that share such data, we also provide financial aid data in the Finanical Aid sections.
There are some caveats to consider when using the net price estimates:
- The net price calculation is weighted by this school's proportion of students living on- and off-campus and this school's estimate of off-campus costs, which may cause the net price methodology be a bit inconsistent from school to school.
- Parental income and student financial aid eligibility is sometimes more complicated than the simple family income number reported here.
- The net price calculation for all students is inclusive of students who received any institutional or government aid, but at the family income levels the net price only considers the tuition paid by those who qualified for federal aid.
You can get a little better guess at what you would pay by using this school's net price calculator.
Percentage of students receiving any aid
The donut, based on 331 full-time first-time degree seeking students at CBD College, shows the percentage of those who received any financial aid (including merit-based scholarships), subdivided by family income.
Aid type and family income
Federal: $0-30K
Federal: $30K-48K
Federal: $48K-75K
Federal: $75K-110K
Federal: Above $110K
Only institutional
Net price by family income
All Incomes
Let's look over the past few years at what freshmen who received any financial aid actually paid for tuition, fees, books, and living expenses on average, and how that compares to the tuition usually paid for other private universities in your context group. Public universities only report net price for in-state students.
Find your net price estimate: www.cbd.edu/calc/npcalc.htm...
Outcomes
Graduation Rate
Approximately 83% of of the undergraduate students were full-time and were attending college for the first time. These students had an 8-year graduation rate of about 69% of.
Time to complete
4 years
6 years
8 years
Context: Graduation rate
These numbers reflect eight-year graduation rates for all degrees earned by full-time students who began as first-time freshmen at the colleges and universities in your chosen context group.
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 CBD College.
Status of loans
Currently paying
Suspended (usually for hardship)
In default
Not released due to privacy
Context: Loans with good standing
This performance is near the middle of the context schools.
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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.
Full-time first-time students
Full-time transfer students
Part-time first-time students
Part-time transfer students
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Full-time first-time students
Full-time transfer students
Percentage with Pell Grants
Years after enrolling.
4
6
8
Full-time first-time students who received an award within 8 years after enrolling
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.
Years after leaving school.
7
5
3
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.
Loan burden
At CBD College, 84% of full-time degree-seeking freshmen receive federal student loans, averaging $7,117 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
Context: Average freshman federal loan amount
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Classroom Experience
Student attention at CBD College
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 CBD College
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. CBD College has 51% full-time instructors, and this is near the middle of the context schools' percentages 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 CBD College, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, only 31% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
Full-time instructors
Long-term instructors
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Faculty Diversity
Here's an opportunity to explore the faculty's diversity. For many schools, attracting a diverse teaching faculty can be a challenge. It's important to judge their success with the reality check of what their peer schools have accomplished.
Number of full-time instructors
The chart shows male instructors to the left, and female to the right, with the races/origins included along the bars. Select the context graph to see how this diversity profile compares to the schools that interest you.
Campus Safety
Crime at CBD College
Check out the number of disciplinary actions (implemented within the school) and arrests (implemented by law enforcement external to the school)
Disciplinary Actions
Liquor Violations
Drug Violations
Weapon Possessions
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Context: Disciplinary Actions
Average number of disciplinary violoations at CBD College as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
Context: Arrests
Average number of arrests at CBD College as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
Criminal Offenses
Burglaries/Robberies
Sex Offenses
Vehicle Thefts
Aggrevated Assaults
Context: Criminal Offenses
Average number of criminal offenses at CBD College as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
Housing
Activities and Services
Undergraduate services offered
- Remedial services
- Employment services for current students
- Placement services for program completers
Student Body
Study Types
All students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
Full-time
Online classes
Context: Student body size
CBD College enrolled 1,050 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is near the middle of the context schools.
Undergraduate student gender
Is the gender balance of CBD College students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
Gender
Men
Women
Undergraduate student race/origin
CBD College reports that 63% of students are minority, which is more than 99% of the context schools. This school's 0 of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
Race/Origin
White
Black
Pacific Islander
Hispanic
Asian
Not Reported
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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 CBD College.
Context: Percentage of women
With 69% women , CBD College ranks near the middle of context schools in its percentage of women students.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how CBD College compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
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.
Freshman residence
In-state
Out-of-state
International
Not Reported
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.
Age range
18-19
20-21
22-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-49
50-64
65 and over
School Finances
CBD College: 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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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?
CBD College is a private not-for-profit school. Along with publicly-controlled schools, not-for-profit schools do not have the goal of annual profit, but they do want to have healthy finances with adequate revenue to meet all expenses. On the other hand, private for-profit schools have creating a profit for shareholders as an annual goal.
Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for CBD College 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.
Investment gains
Tuition and fees revenue
Government appropriations etc.
Other revenue
Instructional expenses
Student services expenses
Academic support expenses
Institutional support expenses
Other expenses
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The power of a large endowment
Related to the previous question of whether the annual revenue stream is stable is the question, "How deep are this school's pockets?" For many schools, a major source of annual income is investment growth. Schools with large endowments have a built-in revenue stream, although you'll see in the accompanying graphs that this revenue stream is highly dependent on the nation's economy. You can choose how to examine the depth of CBD College's resources by selecting from the buttons below.
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Net Assets
Net Assets Per Student
Here we examine assets at CBD College in context, and it seems most fair to adjust for the size of the institution. We examine the assets per full-time-equivalent student so that we level the playing field for size.
There's a catch to these assets, though. Many gifts to a school's endowment have strings attached; the money is restricted to a specific purpose. Assets shown in green below are unrestricted, and are very important to a school's ability to meet its financial obligations. Some assets are the land and buildings that a school must have in order to function, and these may appear as green (unrestricted assets) but are nonetheless less helpful in meeting annual financial commitments. This look at assets is only a piece of the puzzle as we decide if a school is stable.
Restricted net assets
Unrestricted net assets
Context: 2019 net assets per student
