by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Yuba College was awarded 30 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & police science.
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Yuba College landed the #715 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Yuba College held the #946 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Yuba College is also ranked #90 out of 161 schools in California.
Yuba College has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
At Yuba College, the student to faculty ratio is 21 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
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 Yuba College is 44%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Yuba College is 72%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,175 undergraduates at Yuba College with 1,839 being full-time and 3,336 being part-time.
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 Yuba College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
The student loan default rate at Yuba College is 1.0%. 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 Yuba College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2088 N Beale Rd, Marysville, CA 95901 |
| Phone: | 530-741-6700 |
| Website: | https://yc.yccd.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 468 | NA |
| Human Development & Family Studies | 391 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 271 | NA |
| General Social Sciences | 269 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 164 | NA |
| General Biology | 128 | NA |
| General Psychology | 93 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 82 | NA |
| Nursing | 58 | NA |
| Fire Protection | 53 | NA |
This is a decrease from the 4,153 students who took online classes the previous year.
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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