Sixty percent of the students who graduate from the
California State University (CSU) systems have attended
a community college!
LACCD educates almost three
times as many Latino students and nearly four times
as many African-American students as all of the University
of California (UC) campuses combined!
Our nine colleges
offer educational opportunities to students in
more than 36 cities and communities covering an
area of more than 882 square miles!
ENROLLMENT FIGURES,
Fall 2006
City
16,119
Pierce
18,556
East
21,109
Southwest
5,931
Harbor
8,111
Trade-Tech
12,519
Mission
7,540
Valley
16,376
West
8,088
Instructional TV
428
TOTAL:
114,777
STUDENT PROFILE
80%
Minority
40%
Non-Native English speaking
40%
Below the poverty line
25%
From homes in which parents received only elementary
education
AGE OF STUDENT POPULATION
20 and under
20.8%
20-24
31.4%
25-34
24.5%
35 and over
23.4%
COURSE
LOAD
Full Time (12+ credit hours)
26.0%
Part Time
73.1%
EDUCATIONAL
GOALS
Vocational
35.5%
Transfer
30.8%
General Education
10.2%
Transitional
6.9%
Unknown/Undecided
16.6%
AVERAGE full-time student TUITION fees,
2007-2008 school year (two semesters)
Los Angeles Community
Colleges
$600*
California State University
$2,520
University of California
$5,406
*Only
$20 per credit unit.
For more detailed
research and statistics about the Los Angeles Community
College District and its students, please visit
the Office
of Institutional Research and Information(link
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