Los Angeles Southwest College
Los Angeles, California
- Two-year college
- Public
- Suburb
- 3,706 students
What you can study
Programs this school reported awarding, with how many students finished one in the latest year. Where the federal data has it, we show what this school's graduates earned a year after finishing (for graduates from a few years back, so a program can show earnings even if few finished recently). The national figure is for everyone who finished that kind of program anywhere.
Bookkeeping and accounting
- Accounting and Related ServicesCertificate · 0 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $40,897
Child care and early education
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related ServicesCertificate · 12 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $28,174
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related ServicesAssociate degree · 9 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $29,763
Computers and IT
- Computer and Information Sciences, GeneralCertificate · 7 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $44,167
- Computer ProgrammingAssociate degree · 3 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $45,248
- Data Entry/Microcomputer ApplicationsCertificate · 0 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $27,643
- Data Entry/Microcomputer ApplicationsAssociate degree · 0 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $41,766
- Computer ScienceAssociate degree · 1 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $41,515
Industrial and equipment maintenance
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/TechniciansCertificate · 3 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $40,159
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/TechniciansAssociate degree · 2 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $53,952
Office and business support
- Business Operations Support and Assistant ServicesCertificate · 0 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $30,026
- Business Operations Support and Assistant ServicesAssociate degree · 0 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $34,369
Paralegal
- Legal Support ServicesAssociate degree · 0 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $41,377
Police, fire and corrections
- Criminal Justice and CorrectionsCertificate · 3 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $55,215
- Criminal Justice and CorrectionsAssociate degree · 24 finishedEarnings for this school not reportedNationally: $40,997
Registered nursing
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingAssociate degree · 34 finishedGraduates here earned $102,742 a year after finishingNationally: $75,149
Other programs (38)
- AnthropologyAssociate degree · 0 finishedNationally: $37,748
- Biological and Physical SciencesAssociate degree · 70 finishedNationally: $33,713
- Biology, GeneralAssociate degree · 2 finishedNationally: $33,380
- Business Administration, Management and OperationsCertificate · 1 finishedNationally: $44,510
- Business Administration, Management and OperationsAssociate degree · 28 finishedNationally: $41,208
- Business/Commerce, GeneralCertificate · 2 finishedNationally: $54,610
- Business/Commerce, GeneralAssociate degree · 5 finishedNationally: $40,381
- Communication and Media StudiesAssociate degree · 2 finishedNationally: $33,346
- Drama/Theatre Arts and StagecraftAssociate degree · 4 finishedNationally: $22,567
- Education, GeneralCertificate · 0 finishedNationally: $53,127
- English Language and Literature, GeneralAssociate degree · 2 finishedNationally: $27,003
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group StudiesAssociate degree · 0 finishedNationally: $31,611
- Finance and Financial Management ServicesCertificate · 0 finishedNationally: $51,339
- Finance and Financial Management ServicesAssociate degree · 0 finishedNationally: $42,478
- Fine and Studio ArtsAssociate degree · 5 finishedNationally: $24,176
- Foods, Nutrition, and Related ServicesAssociate degree · 1 finishedNationally: $25,749
- Geography and CartographyAssociate degree · 0 finishedNationally: $45,792
- Geological and Earth Sciences/GeosciencesAssociate degree · 0 finishedNationally: $33,448
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, GeneralAssociate degree · 1 finishedNationally: $38,650
- HistoryAssociate degree · 2 finishedNationally: $31,926
- JournalismAssociate degree · 1 finishedNationally: $28,005
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesCertificate · 242 finishedGraduates here earned $46,272 a year afterNationally: $35,042
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesAssociate degree · 345 finishedGraduates here earned $41,348 a year afterNationally: $34,134
- MathematicsAssociate degree · 1 finishedNationally: $36,826
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied ProfessionsCertificate · 5 finishedNationally: $41,294
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, OtherAssociate degreeNationally: $45,150
- MusicAssociate degree · 1 finishedNationally: $26,345
- PhysicsAssociate degree · 3 finishedNationally: $35,965
- Political Science and GovernmentAssociate degree · 6 finishedNationally: $34,854
- Psychology, GeneralAssociate degree · 23 finishedNationally: $30,994
- Public HealthAssociate degreeNationally: $36,417
- Real EstateCertificate · 13 finishedNationally: $45,163
- Real EstateAssociate degree · 3 finishedNationally: $34,704
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing StudiesCertificateNationally: $39,278
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and LinguisticsAssociate degree · 2 finishedNationally: $41,894
- SociologyCertificate · 2 finishedNationally: $42,583
- SociologyAssociate degree · 26 finishedNationally: $33,731
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/FitnessAssociate degree · 2 finishedNationally: $32,424
What it really costs
Net price is what students paid after grants and scholarships.
- Average net price
- $10,836per year, students who got grant aidSource: College Scorecard
- Total cost of attendance
- $19,287sticker price incl. living costs, per yearSource: College Scorecard
- Tuition, in-state
- $1,238Source: College Scorecard
- Students with federal loans
- 2%Source: College Scorecard
How students do
- Finish their program
- 28%first-time, full-time students finishing within 1.5 times the normal lengthSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings
- $34,9266 years after starting, students who got federal aidSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings, later
- $37,91310 years after startingSource: College Scorecard
- Median debt at completion
- Not reportedfederal loans, students who finishedSource: College Scorecard
- Earned a degree or certificate here
- 19%all students who started, 8 years laterSource: College Scorecard
- Left for another college before finishing
- 33%all students who started, 8 years laterSource: College Scorecard
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Where these numbers come from
Every number on this page comes from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard page for Los Angeles Southwest College, which draws on what the school reports to the federal government and on federal student aid and tax records. Program earnings cover graduates who received federal student aid. We last pulled the data on November 6, 2026.
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