Private for-profit · Community college

Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield

Bakersfield, California · Large city

0%
Transfer rate
$51,867
Avg net price
50%
Grad / completion
$41,472
Median earnings

Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield is a private for-profit associate-granting institution in Bakersfield, California (large city setting), enrolling 493 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 493 undergradsLarge city

About Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. Upon Spanish arrival, present-day Bakersfield was inhabited by the Yowlumne, a Yokuts people. Yowlumne accounts indicate that the village of Woilu was situated in the bounds of the present city. Bakersfield appears in the 1997 role-playing video game Fallout under the name of Necropolis. (Wikipedia)

Setting
Large city
Highest degree offered
Associate
To the ocean
71 miles
Nearest airport
7 miles to Meadows Field (BFL)

How Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield compares

Graduation rate50%

Higher than 36% · #255 of 382 in California

First-year retention52%

Higher than 13%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$41,472

Higher than 74% · #110 of 326 in California

Average net price$51,867

Cheaper than 1% · #374 cheapest of 377 in California

Median debt at graduation$9,500

Lower than 57%

Student–faculty ratio33 : 1

Lower than 3%

Undergraduate enrollment493

Larger than 62%

Percentiles compare Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in California.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

493undergrads
  • Women39280%
  • Men10120%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

  • White15%
  • Black12%
  • Hispanic50%
  • Asian10%
  • Other or multiracial13%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment
493
Student–faculty ratio
33 : 1
Pell Grant recipients
46%
First-generation students
55%
Students over 25
60%
Median family income
$20,380
Avg faculty salary (academic year)
$53,973

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition
Room & board
Total cost of attendance
Average net price
$51,867

Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.

Outcomes

Graduated
50%
First-year retention
52%
Transferred to another college
0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry
$38,921
Median earnings, 10 years after entry
$41,472
Median debt at graduation
$9,500
Students with federal loans
78%
Paying down their loans (1 year in)
37%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students
50%
Low-income (Pell)
63%
First-generation
63%

When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing
No
Application fee
$100

Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.

Campus safety

Safety grade
C
Reported offenses per 1,000 students
2.0 / year
Violent offenses (2022–2024)
0
Property offenses (2022–2024)
3

On-campus criminal offenses reported under the Clery Act, 2022–2024, across 1 campus (493 students). Counts reflect reports, not convictions — schools with strong reporting cultures often show more, so a higher count doesn't simply mean a more dangerous campus.

Reported offenses in an average year

The same 2022–2024 Clery Act reports, divided down to one year.

1.0reported offenses a year
0 violent a year1.0 property a year

By offense type, per year

Motor vehicle theft
1.0

Averages, not a forecast — a single year can run well above or below this. Bars are scaled against this campus's most-reported offense, so they compare types here rather than against other schools.

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k
$51,290
$30–48k
$52,374
$48–75k
$52,603
$75–110k
$52,658
$110k+

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield funds essentially no grants of its own — almost all aid here comes from federal (Pell), state, or outside sources rather than the school's own discount. Its sticker price is what it is.

Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid, 2022–23 full-time first-year undergraduates.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years)
$41,472
Typical debt at graduation
$9,500
Debt vs. one year's pay
23%
Out-earn a HS grad
52%

Typical debt would take roughly 2.3 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women
$38,013
Men
$52,502

Men out-earn women by $14,489 (38%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high
97°F
Winter low
38°F
Annual rain
6.7″
Annual snow
0.1″

Average temperature

HighLow
30°70°110°JFMAMJJASOND

Average precipitation (inches)

0.00.71.3JFMAMJJASOND

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Bakersfield 5 NW, CA US station (5.5 mi from campus).

Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.