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Overview
Advanced College is in a large suburb with more than 250,000 residents. It is in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim CA area.
Highlights
Undergraduate program with the highest reported starting salary ($25K): Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants
Largest undergraduate program (41): Phlebotomy Technician/Phlebotomist
Institutional Control
Advanced College is a private for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Advanced 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
Council on Occupational Education (Accredited June 13, 2003 - present)
- The accreditation was recently renewed on June 4, 2020.
- The next accreditation review is scheduled for December 31, 2022.
- A probation was placed on the accreditation on February 19, 2018 for Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: Warning--Significantly out of compliance - student achievement
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
Advanced 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 Advanced 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
Advanced College program offerings
What award level are you pursuing?
0-1 Year Certificate
Phlebotomy Technician/Phlebotomist
A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and other health care professionals, to draw blood samples from patients using a variety of intrusive procedures. Includes instruction in basic vascular anatomy and physiology, blood physiology, skin puncture techniques, venipuncture, venous specimen collection and handling, safety and sanitation procedures, and applicable standards and regulations
Note: The name and definition of this program are based on Department of Education CIP code descriptions, which ensures uniform reporting across schools in the US. Please check this school's website for detailed program information and their specific course descriptions._
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By Level
By Race/Origin
By Gender
Completions in Phlebotomy Technician/Phlebotomist by award level
0-1 Year Certificate
Recently College Scorecard released data on starting salaries and cumulative federal student debt for each school/program combination with sufficient graduates to allow for privacy concerns with data releases. Shown in the box plots below are data for all schools offering health/medical techinician studies (which may contain several related fields) by award level. If a value is reported for Advanced College, then that is shown in blue.
Starting Salaries
Cumulative Federal Student Loan Debt
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.
Accounting (7 Months)
Health/Health Care Administration/Management (13 Months)
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training (13 Months)
This program is Advanced College's 1st largest program. On average, students take 13 months of full-time study to complete the required 1536 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 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
$2,860
$32,140
Context: costs of similar programs
Phlebotomy Technician/Phlebotomist (2 Months)
This program is Advanced College's 3rd largest program. On average, students take 2 months of full-time study to complete the required 100 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Phlebotomy Technician/Phlebotomist certificate programs within the context schools that take 6 months or fewer to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$200
$2,300
Context: costs of similar programs
Surgical Technology/Technologist (13 Months)
This program is Advanced College's 2nd largest program. On average, students take 13 months of full-time study to complete the required 1605 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
$2,845
$31,155
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
$5,661
$5,661
$15,185
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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
Accounting (7 months)
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Outcomes
Graduation Rate
All undergraduate students were full-time with about 72% of them attending college for the first time. In the last reporting year, 58% of students, including those who were part-time or transfer students, received a degree within 8 years.
Time to complete
4 years
6 years
8 years
Context: Graduation rate
These numbers reflect eight-year graduation rates for all degrees at the colleges and universities in your chosen context group. This reporting is for undergraduate students inclusive of transfer students and full/part-time students.
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 Advanced College.
Status of loans
Currently paying
Suspended (usually for hardship)
More than 90 days late in paying
In default
Not released due to privacy
Context: Loans with good standing
About 80% of the context schools have better performance, suggesting that Advanced College'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.
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.
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Full-time first-time students who received a certificate 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.
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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.
Loan burden
At Advanced College, 100% of full-time degree-seeking freshmen receive federal student loans, averaging $8,227 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 Advanced 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 Advanced College
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Advanced College has 20% full-time instructors, and 89% 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 Advanced 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
Housing
Activities and Services
Undergraduate services offered
- Academic/career counseling services
- Employment services for current students
- Placement services for program completers
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.
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Student Body
Study Types
All students are full-time. There are no students who take all courses via distance education, but 89% take some courses online.
Full-time
Online classes
Context: Student body size
Advanced College enrolled 193 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than 72% of the context schools.
Undergraduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Advanced College students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
Gender
Men
Women
Undergraduate student race/origin
Advanced College reports that 100% of students are minority, which is near the middle of the context schools. Similarly, this school's 0 of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
Race/Origin
Black
Hispanic
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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 Advanced College.
Context: Percentage of women
With 78% women students, Advanced College has a higher percentage of women than 64% of context schools.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Advanced 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
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25-29
30-34
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40-49
School Finances
Advanced 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?
Advanced College 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 Advanced 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.
Tuition and fees revenue
Government appropriations etc.
Other revenue
Auxilliary expenses
Instructional expenses
Student services expenses
Academic & instructional support, student services expenses
Academic support expenses
Institutional support expenses
Other expenses
