Private for-profit · Community college
ZMS The Academy
Los Angeles, California · Large city
- 0%
- Transfer rate
- $7,812
- Avg net price
- 40%
- Grad / completion
- —
- Median earnings
ZMS The Academy is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Los Angeles, California (large city setting), enrolling 144 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.
About Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. The historic center of Tongva power in the region was the settlement of Yaanga (Tongva: Iyáangẚ), meaning "place of the poison oak", which would eventually be the site where the Spanish founded the Pueblo de Los Ángeles. Iyáangẚ has also been translated as "the valley of smoke". Los Angeles is often billed as the creative capital of the world because one in every six of its residents works in a creative industry and there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other city at any other time in world history. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Large city
- Highest degree offered
- Certificate
- Nearest big city
- 2 miles to Los Angeles, CA
- To the ocean
- 15 miles
- Nearest airport
- 11 miles to Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne (HHR)
How ZMS The Academy compares
Higher than 26% · #298 of 382 in California
Higher than 3%
Cheaper than 79% · #73 cheapest of 377 in California
Lower than 12%
Larger than 36%
Percentiles compare ZMS The Academy 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
- Women8156%
- Men6344%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White1.4%
- Black2.8%
- Hispanic72%
- Asian0.7%
- Other or multiracial23%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 144
- Student–faculty ratio
- 25 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 10%
- First-generation students
- 70%
- Students over 25
- 55%
- Median family income
- $12,488
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Cost
- In-state tuition
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- Room & board
- —
- Total cost of attendance
- —
- Average net price
- $7,812
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
- 40%
- First-year retention
- 28%
- Transferred to another college
- 0%
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- —
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- —
- Median debt at graduation
- —
- Students with federal loans
- 1%
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $250
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%.
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.
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?
ZMS The Academy 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.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 84°F
- Winter low
- 48°F
- Annual rain
- 14.2″
Average temperature
HighLowAverage precipitation (inches)
NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, CA US station (1.5 mi from campus).
What ZMS The Academy graduates study — and earn
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.