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Overview
Founded in 2003, Presidio Graduate School is located in a large city with a population of more than 250,000. It is in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley CA area.
Institutional Control
Presidio Graduate School 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.
Presidio Graduate School holds an accreditation from one of the seven regional accreditors, which should ensure that credits earned transfer easily to other schools. Please read below for concerns we found in the accreditation records.
Accreditation History
WASC Senior College and University Commission (Accredited June 19, 2013 - present)
- The accreditation was recently renewed on February 14, 2020.
- The next accreditation review was scheduled for February 13, 2026.
- A probation was placed on the accreditation on February 14, 2020 for Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: Other--Additional oversight is required to ensure a resolution of compliance issues
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (Accredited April 1, 2010 - present)
- The next accreditation review was scheduled for December 31, 2012.
Programs
Presidio Graduate School program offerings
What award level are you pursuing?
Master's Degree
Sustainability Studies
A program that focuses on the concept of sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective. Includes instruction in sustainable development, environmental policies, ethics, ecology, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, economics, natural resources, sociology, and anthropology
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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Completions in Sustainability Studies by award level
Master's Degree
Postbaccalaureate Cert
What can I do if I study Sustainability Studies?
Below we list the careers that the US Department of Education suggests are best fits for people who studied sustainability studies. You can get an idea of salary and the level of education you'll need, as well as whether this is a growing or shrinking career field. Sometimes this list of recommended careers doesn't match what people who earned this degree are really doing. Our sustainability studies program page has much more information about the interplay between study in this field and possible careers. Select any table row to learn more about listed career.
Occupation
Follow these links to learn all about this career!
Costs
Graduate general costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Presidio Graduate School. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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$26,900
$1,195
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Historic Annual Costs
This chart shows an inflation-adjusted view of the costs for general full-time graduate students over time. The shading reflects charges within your comparison group over the same time period. Private and public universities' charges are difficult to compare due to the in- and out-of-state structure of public universities, and therefore we only compare Presidio Graduate School to other private schools within your chosen comparison group.
Graduate Assistantships at Presidio Graduate School
Keep in mind that many graduate programs fund or partially fund their students through teaching, research, or other graduate assistantships. Some programs have provided graduate financial aid information that you can check for in the Programs section on this page. If we don't have that data, be sure to inquire with the academic department that interests you and do not assume you would have to pay full tuition for an academic graduate degree.
We believe that Presidio Graduate School does not offer assistantships to its graduate students. We calculated this percentage by dividing the number of graduate assistantships offered at Presidio Graduate School by its number of full-time-equivalent graduate students.
Graduate tuition, fees, books, and supplies over time
Research
The library is the backbone of academic learning and research
A rigorous academic program requires that students and faculty alike are engaging in independent research, and that activity requires strong library support. You can get some useful information here:
- How strong and how balanced between traditional physical books and easily-accessed (but expensive) electronic journals and other resources is this library?
- How much is this library borrowing from other libraries? The number of interlibrary loans received can indicate the school's commitment to getting the resources on-campus researchers need, and also of the research activity on campus.
- How big a resource is this library to other libraries? A large number of outgoing interlibrary loans speaks highly of the value of its content.
The presence of a library in and of itself is a good thing. Increasingly, libraries are comfortable and inviting spaces for individual and group study sessions. Librarians can be incredibly friendly guides in your quest to find materials that aid your learning.
Comparison of library resources per student
How do the per-student library resources at Presidio Graduate School compare to other schools?
Comparison of library loans per student
A small library could make up for a small collection by allowing a large number of interlibrary loans to be received. An excellent library can show its strength by its number of loans given.
Research funding: the best indicator of post-baccalaureate academic rigor
Any school that reports at least $150,000 in research and development expenditures in a given year should have submitted out the Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey to the National Science Foundation (NSF). We did not find HERD data for $Presidio Graduate School, so there would at most modest graduate-level academic scholarship campus-wide.
Classroom Experience
Student attention at Presidio Graduate School
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 Presidio Graduate School
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Presidio Graduate School has 15% full-time instructors, and 98% 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 Presidio Graduate School, 100% have multi-year employment contracts. 96% of the context schools have a lower percentage of faculty with multi-year contracts.
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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.
Student Body
Study Types
About 39% of students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
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Online classes
Context: Student body size
Presidio Graduate School enrolled 154 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than almost all the context schools.
Gratduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Presidio Graduate School students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
Gender
Men
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Gratduate student race/origin
Presidio Graduate School reports that 37% of students are minority, which is near the middle of the context schools. With no international students, this school has a lower percentage of international students than 99% of 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 Presidio Graduate School.
Context: Percentage of women
With 63% women students, Presidio Graduate School has a higher percentage of women than 84% of context schools.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Presidio Graduate School compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
Student age distribution
Graduate students' ages may vary a lot from program to program, and we can only provide this statistic as a total for all graduate programs. In general, if the colors in the time chart lean towards lighter turquoise, you can surmise that this school is attracting students soon after they've completed their undergraduate degrees.
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School Finances
Presidio Graduate School: 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?
Presidio Graduate School 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 Presidio Graduate School 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
Independent operations revenue
Tuition and fees revenue
Private and capital gifts
Educational sales revenue
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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 Presidio Graduate School's resources by selecting from the buttons below.
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Net Assets
Net Assets Per Student
Here we examine assets at Presidio Graduate School 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.
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Context: 2019 net assets per student
