West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies

Private for-profitSpecial Focus: Medical Schools/CentersGraduate/Professional

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 60 peers in its group

West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies is a private for-profit institution in Los Angeles, CA, classified by Carnegie as “Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers.”

It is benchmarked here against 60 peer institutions (Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private for-profit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 91 out of 100 within that peer group, a transparent composite of endowment per undergraduate, net tuition revenue per student, and instructional spend per student.

Its strongest standing relative to peers is median earnings (10 yr) ($102,672, 100th percentile).

Its weakest is median debt at graduation ($32,946).

Peer group

Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private for-profit

60 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies is to the structural shifts reshaping higher ed: a composite structural-risk index plus the 2025 federal budget law’s endowment excise tax and Grad PLUS elimination and the demographic enrollment cliff. Only signals that apply to this institution are shown.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

-27.7%

Severe decline

Indicative signals, not forecasts — see each metric’s definition and the methodology. Endowment-tax and Grad PLUS figures appear only where the institution is actually exposed; “nationally” compares against all schools that report each signal.

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Revenue composition

Where the money comes from $400.6M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Reported at parent/system level — reflects West Coast University-Los Angeles.

Tuition & fees is the largest single source at 100% of revenue.

Tuition & fees99.7%

Investment return0.3%

Other revenue0.0%

Where each dollar of revenue comes from, as a share of total positive revenue. Sources are standardized across public (GASB) and private (FASB) reporting; a net investment loss in a down market is shown as 0% and excluded from the mix.

Financial Health

Net tuition revenue / FTE

Strong

$33,134

92nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $20,210

Instructional spend / FTE

Strong

$11,952

90th percentile in peer grouppeer median $6,042

Avg monthly faculty salary

Strong

$10,985

94th percentile in peer grouppeer median $8,080

Average monthly salary of full-time faculty, as reported to IPEDS.

Operating margin

Strong

24.8%

Parent/system level

Reported at parent/system level — reflects West Coast University-Los Angeles. Excluded from rankings and peer percentiles.

Tuition dependency

88.5%

Parent/system level

Reported at parent/system level — reflects West Coast University-Los Angeles. Excluded from rankings and peer percentiles.

Enrollment & Pipeline

Program concentration (HHI)

Highly concentrated

10,000

— percentile in peer group

How concentrated the institution's degree and certificate output is across academic fields (CIP 2-digit families), as a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index on the latest year's completions: 10,000 means every completion is in one field; lower means output is spread across many. A higher value means the school leans on fewer fields and is more exposed to demand shifts in them; a lower value reflects a broad program portfolio. Shown for institutions reporting at least 100 annual completions. A structural-diversification signal, not a measure of quality.

12-month FTE enrollment

818

68th percentile in peer grouppeer median 497

Full-time-equivalent enrollment over the full 12-month year (IPEDS 12-month enrollment, 2022-23). Counts part-time students at their fractional load, so it runs above fall full-time headcount and is the denominator used for per-student finance measures.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

Severe decline

-27.7%

— percentile in peer group

Projected change in the number of high-school graduates in the institution's HOME STATE from the class of 2025 (the national peak) to 2041, per WICHE's Knocking at the College Door, 11th Edition (Dec 2024). The 'enrollment cliff' is the post-2008 birth decline reaching college age; the U.S. total is projected to fall about 13% over this window. A college recruits from many states, so its home-state projection is an indicative directional signal of feeder-market pressure, not a forecast of that institution's own enrollment.

Student Outcomes & Risk

Median earnings (10 yr)

Strong

$102,672

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median $92,405

Median debt at graduation

Below peers

$32,946

89th percentile in peer grouppeer median $21,710

3-yr cohort default rate

Average

1.6%

42nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 3.4%

Share of borrowers who defaulted within three years of entering repayment (U.S. Dept. of Education official cohort default rate). Shown for the FY2017 borrower cohort — the most recent cohort whose full three-year default window closed before the 2020-23 federal student-loan payment pause. More recent cohorts are reported by the College Scorecard at essentially 0%, but that reflects the payment pause (no payments were due, so almost no one could default), not borrower health, so the pre-pause cohort is the last meaningful reading. Lower is better.

Full-time faculty share

Strong

38.4%

73rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 23.7%

Debt-to-earnings ratio

Average

0.32×

66th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0.32×

Field-demand outlook (10-yr)

Fast-growing field mix

+6.2%

94th percentile in peer group

Projected 10-year (2024-34) change in U.S. employment for the occupations this institution's degrees and certificates feed, blended across its program mix. Built by mapping each CIP 2-digit field to its occupations via the NCES CIP-SOC crosswalk, taking the employment-weighted average of each occupation's BLS-projected percent change, then weighting fields by the institution's latest-year completions. The U.S. all-occupations benchmark is 3.1%, so a higher value means the school's graduates concentrate in faster-growing labor markets. An INDICATIVE field-level signal at broad-field granularity — not a program-specific or graduate-specific projection, and not a placement or earnings guarantee. Structurally diffuse CIP families whose crosswalk maps to 'any job' are excluded from the signal: 05 Area/Ethnic/Gender Studies, 24 Liberal Arts & Humanities, and 30 Multi/Interdisciplinary. Shown where at least 50% of completions fall in fields with a coherent occupational mapping and the school reports 100+ annual completions.

Loan repayment rate (3-yr)

69.4%

89th percentile in peer grouppeer median 59.5%

Share of student-loan borrowers who had repaid at least $1 of their loan principal within three years of entering repayment (College Scorecard, FY2024-25). Read it as context, not a simple good/bad score: a low rate can mean borrowers are struggling, but it can also mean many graduates have postponed payments while enrolled in graduate or professional school, which is common at selective schools and pushes their rate down. Unlike the cohort default rate, it is not distorted by the 2020-23 federal payment pause. Reported only where enough borrowers exist.

Top fields of study (all levels)

West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies’s largest fields by completions, with graduate earnings (4 years out) and debt benchmarked against the same field at its peer group. Sparklines show the 8-year completions trend.

Field	Completions / yr	Median earnings, 4 yrs out	Median debt	Earnings premium	Risk score
Health Professions & Clinical Sciences	154	—	—	—	—
Health Professions & Clinical Sciences	68	$91,685 29th pct · 17 peers	—	Above benchmark +22%	Low · 4

All 1 top fields shown clear the CA state earnings-premium benchmark (indicative).

Earnings-premium status is an indicative estimate: median graduate earnings four years out vs the CA state median earnings of a high-school graduate (undergraduate credentials) or a bachelor’s-degree holder (graduate credentials) from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2022 ACS 5-year). The official U.S. Department of Education determination uses its own cohort definition and may differ.

The risk score (0–100) is an indicative blend of earnings-premium margin and the five-year completions trend—higher means a field pays closer to (or below) the benchmark and is shrinking. A directional screen, not an official determination.

See the interactive dashboard for all fields and credential levels (associate through doctoral). Source: College Scorecard Field of Study.

Frequently asked

How much do West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies graduates earn?

Median earnings ten years after entry are $102,672 (College Scorecard), measured across students who received federal aid.

Are West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies's programs at risk under the federal earnings-premium test?

Indicatively, at West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies, the single largest field with available earnings data clears the CA state earnings-premium benchmark used by the 2025 federal test (effective July 1, 2026) — median graduate earnings (four years out) exceed those of a typical worker without the credential. This is an estimate using College Scorecard earnings vs ACS medians; the official Department of Education determination may differ.

Which schools are West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies's peers?

West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies is benchmarked against 60 institutions in the Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private for-profit peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.

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Source: U.S. Department of Education — College Scorecard & IPEDS (most recent releases), with the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Employment Projections, field-demand outlook) and WICHE (enrollment-cliff projections). Figures lag the current academic year by roughly two to three years. Percentiles and medians are computed within the institution's peer group. Financial Resilience is a transparent composite — see each component above. Compiled by Ibex Insights.