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Vanguard University of Southern California was awarded 63 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing practice.
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Vanguard landed the #860 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Vanguard held the #1,161 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Vanguard also holds the #112 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
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Vanguard University of Southern California has an acceptance rate of 69%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for Vanguard.
About 12% of students accepted to Vanguard submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 500 and 610. Math scores were between 480 and 590.
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The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Vanguard University of Southern California, this ratio is 17 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Vanguard University of Southern California is 95%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Vanguard University of Southern California has a freshmen retention rate of 75%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Vanguard for first-time, full-time students is 51%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,997 undergraduates at Vanguard with 1,770 being full-time and 227 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $16,602 | $15,246 | $19,963 | $23,446 | $27,742 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Vanguard, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Vanguard, approximately 95% of students took out student loans averaging $6,181 a year. That adds up to $24,724 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Vanguard is 5.0%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for Vanguard are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 55 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 |
| Phone: | 714-556-3610 |
| Website: | https://www.vanguard.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/vanguarduniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/vanguardu |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 67 | $37,217 |
| General Psychology | 66 | $31,534 |
| Nursing | 63 | $91,857 |
| Health & Physical Education | 36 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 29 | $30,413 |
| Religious Studies | 26 | NA |
| General Education | 23 | NA |
| History | 19 | NA |
| General Biology | 19 | NA |
| Sociology | 17 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 1,752 students took at least one online class at Vanguard University of Southern California. This is a decrease from the 2,289 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,752 | 251 |
| 2019-2020 | 2,289 | 2,135 |
| 2018-2019 | 262 | 81 |
| 2017-2018 | 98 | 98 |
| 2016-2017 | 91 | 91 |
Learn more about online learning at Vanguard University of Southern California.
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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