Southern California Institute of Architecture
Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Institute of Architecture is a private university in Los Angeles, California, a large city, with 236 undergraduates. Architecture is its signature field: 100% of its bachelor's degrees, about 167 times its share across the colleges we cover. 71% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $71,909 ten years after starting.
Southern California Institute of Architecture admitted 501 of 606 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (82.7%).
- Acceptance rate
- 82.7%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $56,162
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $43,923
- Average, students with aid
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Southern California Institute of Architecture is known for
Measured by the 49 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Architecture
100.0%
of its bachelor's degrees: about 167 times the 0.6% share across the colleges we cover.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology49100.0% of degrees
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Large city
Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduates
236
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Special focus: other fields
Living on campus
Under a quarter
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
9 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
46%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Southern California Institute of Architecture
Three things Southern California Institute of Architecture published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
The admit rate rose from 67% to 83% between fall 2020 and fall 2023.
Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2020 to fall 2023
3% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
Most of the enrolled class sent no SAT, so any score range would describe that share of it, not the class. Another 3% sent an ACT. Southern California Institute of Architecture files test scores under “considered”.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $43,923 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
82.7%
501 admitted of 606 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
3%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
3%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Southern California Institute of Architecture?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Southern California Institute of Architecture costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $56,162, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $71,612. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $43,923 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$56,162
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$71,612
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$43,923
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $71,612 full cost.
- Under $30k$36,824Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$38,430Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$66,362Typical public university: $13,703
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
71%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
91%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$71,909
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
How the rate has moved
Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.
Between fall 2020 and fall 2023 the admit rate rose from 67% to 83%.
What Southern California Institute of Architecture says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Essayrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Class rank
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Essays on this application
1 essay prompt on the application: you would write it.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in California
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Point Loma Nazarene University82.8%
- California Baptist University81.4%
- Otis College of Art and Design84%
- California State University-Bakersfield84.2%
Colleges with a similar acceptance rate
Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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