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Los Angeles Film School

Hollywood, California · Large city

Admit rate
$30,980
Avg net price
41%
Graduation rate
$31,632
Median earnings

Los Angeles Film School is a private for-profit bachelor's-granting institution in Hollywood, California (large city setting), enrolling 5,472 undergraduates.

Private for-profitMidsize · 5,472 undergradsLarge cityNear the coast

About Hollywood, California

Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. H. J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the 480-acre (1.9 km2) E.C. Hurd ranch. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area. (Wikipedia)

Setting
Large city
Highest degree offered
Bachelor's
To the ocean
11 miles
Nearest airport
7 miles to Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR) · major hub

How Los Angeles Film School compares

Graduation rate41%

Higher than 25% · #102 of 122 in California

First-year retention51%

Higher than 7%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$31,632

Higher than 4% · #127 of 130 in California

Average net price$30,980

Cheaper than 14% · #78 cheapest of 118 in California

Median debt at graduation$25,250

Lower than 29%

Student–faculty ratio31 : 1

Lower than 2%

Undergraduate enrollment5,472

Larger than 79%

Percentiles compare Los Angeles Film School with the nation's 2,196 four-year colleges, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count four-year colleges in California.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

5,472undergrads
  • Women1,33824%
  • Men4,13476%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

  • White28%
  • Black33%
  • Hispanic5.8%
  • Asian2.5%
  • Other or multiracial30%

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

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment
5,472
Student–faculty ratio
31 : 1
Pell Grant recipients
63%
First-generation students
42%
Students over 25
70%
Median family income
$14,580
Avg faculty salary (academic year)
$49,860

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
$30,980

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 (within 6 years)
41%
Graduated on time (4 years)
33%
First-year retention
51%
Transferred to another college
1%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry
$24,375
Median earnings, 10 years after entry
$31,632
Median debt at graduation
$25,250
Students with federal loans
71%
Paying down their loans (1 year in)
25%

About 8% of students who finish here need more than four years — each extra year adds roughly another year of tuition and living costs.

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students
33%
Low-income (Pell)
44%
First-generation
43%

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
Free

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
A
Reported offenses per 1,000 students
0.1 / year
Violent offenses (2022–2024)
0
Property offenses (2022–2024)
2

On-campus criminal offenses reported under the Clery Act, 2022–2024, across 1 campus (5,472 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.

0.7reported offenses a year
0 violent a year0.7 property a year

By offense type, per year

Burglary
0.3
Arson
0.3

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
$30,655
$30–48k
$30,952
$48–75k
$32,250
$75–110k
$31,598
$110k+
$37,462

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.

Four-year (or more) true cost

Net price for your family's income, projected across the time it actually takes students here to graduate.

Est. total to a degree
$138,572

$32,250/year × about 4.3 years — most students here don't finish in exactly four, and each extra term adds cost. A planning estimate from net-price and graduation-timing data, not a bill.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Grant aid from the school's own funds — the discount off sticker, on top of any federal or state help.

17%
of first-years get a grant from the school
$1,840
average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 17% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $1,840. Most of what lowers the price here is federal or state money, not the school's own funds.

Blends need-based and merit aid — IPEDS doesn't split the two, so a high number can mean generous merit scholarships, deep need-based aid, or both. Figures cover 2,348 full-time first-year undergraduates, 2022–23. Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid.

Is it worth it?

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

Median earnings (10 years)
$31,632
Typical debt at graduation
$25,250
Debt vs. one year's pay
80%
Out-earn a HS grad
45%

Typical debt would take roughly 8.0 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Weigh it value

The payoff is less clear-cut here — weigh the debt against the earnings and your intended field before borrowing heavily.

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
$27,517
Men
$32,658

Men out-earn women by $5,141 (19%) 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
88°F
Winter low
42°F
Annual rain
16.5″

Average temperature

HighLow
30°70°100°JFMAMJJASOND

Average precipitation (inches)

0.02.34.5JFMAMJJASOND

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Burbank Valley Pump Plt, CA US station (6.2 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.