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Laney College

Oakland, CA4,184 online only

Laney College is a public community college in Oakland, CA, with about 6,027 students on campus and 4,184 more studying only online.

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Students on campus
6,027
plus 4,184 studying only online
Admission rate
Open
open enrollment
Net price a year
$17,110
tuition and fees $1,258; the net price adds housing and food
Graduation rate
31%
lower than at 89% of 2-year colleges
Earnings, 10 yrs later
$37,282
lower than at 61% of U.S. colleges
Getting in

How hard is it to get into Laney College?

Open

anyone with a high school diploma can enroll

Test scores of admitted students

No SAT or ACT ranges reported. Laney College is likely test-optional.

What it costs

The sticker price, and what families really pay

Sticker price: $25,335 a year

Before any grants · out-of-state tuition $9,898

Tuition & fees (in state) $1,258Books & supplies $1,492Other costs $22,585

After grants, the average family on aid pays $17,110.

Tuition and fees are $1,258 a year. The net price also counts housing, food and other costs at full price, so a student living at home pays less than it shows.

Your family’s price

Average net price after grants, by family income

$21,213

About $42,426 over 2 years · 16% off the sticker price

Under $30k$30–48k$48–75k$75–110kOver $110k
Outcomes

Do students finish, and does it pay off?

Graduate
31%
within 3 years · Pell students 34%
Come back for year two
54%
full-time first-year students
Earnings, 10 years later
$37,282
median, students on federal aid
Typical debt
—

Paying back loans

Federal student loans, this college

25%

of borrowers paid down at least some of their loan within three years, more than at 9% of U.S. colleges.

Almost none defaulted within three years (payments on federal loans were paused from 2020 to 2023, so recent default rates are near zero everywhere).

Majors

What students study, and what it pays

Share of degrees by field

Social sciences 15%Culinary & personal services 14%Business 12%Liberal arts 12%Interdisciplinary 6%Computer science 6%Everything else 34%

Associate degree programs with the most graduates

And their graduates’ median earnings four years later (one year where that’s all that’s reported).

Social Sciences, General139 graduates a year
$30k4 yrs out
Biological and Physical Sciences71 graduates a year
—not reported
Business Administration, Management and Operations56 graduates a year
$61k4 yrs out
English Language and Literature/Letters, Other40 graduates a year
—not reported
Mathematics39 graduates a year
—not reported
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities34 graduates a year
—not reported
Accounting and Related Services21 graduates a year
—not reported
Computer Programming18 graduates a year
—not reported
Who goes there

The students

6,842 degree-seeking undergraduates.

By race and ethnicity

White 19%Hispanic 25%Black 22%Asian 22%Two or more 7%International 1%

Women and men

Women 53%Men 47%
31 : 1
students per teacher
16%
get Pell grants (lower income)
1%
take federal loans
46%
undergrads 25 or older
77%
study part time
The town around it

Living in Oakland

6% of Oakland’s 440,838 residents are enrolled in college. What the town is like, from TownRatings’ Oakland pages.

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Nearby

Other colleges within 30 miles

Straight-line distances from Laney College; colleges with 100 or more students on campus.

Lincoln UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Oakland
0.6 mi474 students
Academy of Chinese Culture and Health SciencesUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Oakland
0.7 mi122 students
College of AlamedaCommunity college · Public · Alameda · mostly online
1.4 mi1,635 students
Samuel Merritt UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Oakland
1.6 mi1,516 students
Northeastern University OaklandUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Oakland
4.5 mi657 students
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College-BerkeleyUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Berkeley
4.5 mi119 students
The Wright InstituteUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Berkeley
4.9 mi511 students
Berkeley City CollegeCommunity college · Public · Berkeley · mostly online
5 mi2,915 students

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Sources: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (institution and field-of-study files) and IPEDS (Scorecard 06/10/2026 · IPEDS 2024 · fall 2023); town figures from the Census American Community Survey and NOAA climate normals. Graduation rates count first-time, full-time students; earnings and debt are for students who received federal aid. Distances are straight-line. Colleges are described, not graded (how TownRatings describes colleges). Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.