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Community college · Private nonprofit

Clary Sage College

Tulsa, OKPart of a 3-campus system11 online only

Clary Sage College is a private nonprofit community college in Tulsa, OK, with about 356 students on campus.

Students on campus
356
plus 11 studying only online
Admission rate
Open
open enrollment
Net price a year
$23,280
higher than at 65% of 4-year colleges
Graduation rate
80%
higher than at 74% of 2-year colleges
Earnings, 10 yrs later
$28,954
whole college system
In brief

Clary Sage College, in brief

Clary Sage College is mostly about culinary and personal services

82% of the degrees Clary Sage College awards are in culinary and personal services; the next biggest field, health professions, is 12%. Majors ↓

Clary Sage College is very small

About 356 students attend on campus. With classes this small, a handful of students can move the graduation rate from one year to the next. The students ↓

Most students come from lower-income families

65% of undergraduates receive Pell grants, the federal grant for lower-income students. The students ↓

Lower-income families pay more here than at most colleges

Families earning under $30,000 still pay about $21,490 a year after grants. What it costs ↓

This summary is written from the data on this page. Figures are from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard; earnings, debt and repayment are reported for the whole 3-campus system; graduation rates count only first-time, full-time students; at a college this small, rates can swing from year to year.

★ What stands out · Majors

What students study, and what it pays

Share of degrees by field

Culinary & personal services 82%Health professions 12%Visual & performing arts 7%

Associate degree programs with the most graduates

And their graduates’ median earnings four years later (one year where that’s all that’s reported); reported for the whole college system.

Design and Applied Arts4 graduates a year
—not reported
Getting in

How hard is it to get into Clary Sage College?

Open

anyone with a high school diploma can enroll

Test scores of admitted students

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

What it costs

The sticker price, and what families really pay

Sticker price: $26,123 a year

Before any grants

Other costs $26,123

After grants, the average family on aid pays $23,280.

Your family’s price

Average net price after grants, by family income

$24,479

About $48,958 over 2 years · 6% off the sticker price

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

Do students finish, and does it pay off?

Graduate
80%
within 3 years · Pell students 77%
Come back for year two
71%
full-time first-year students
Earnings, 10 years later
$28,954
median, whole college system
Typical debt
$8,898
about $94 a month over 10 years · whole system

Debt vs. the paycheck

The typical loan payment as a share of a typical graduate’s monthly pay six years after starting (whole college system)

4.2%
0%10%: a common comfort line25%

$94 a month against about $2,241 a month in pay.

Paying back loans

Federal student loans, whole college system

34%

of borrowers paid down at least some of their loan within three years, more than at 26% 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).

Earnings by family background

Median earnings 10 years after starting, by family income at enrollment (whole college system)

Lower incomeunder $30k
$28k
Middle income$30–75k
$32k
Higher incomeover $75k
$36k
Who goes there

The students

415 degree-seeking undergraduates.

By race and ethnicity

White 33%Hispanic 11%Black 15%Asian 4%Two or more 4%

Women and men

Women 86%Men 14%
18 : 1
students per teacher
65%
get Pell grants (lower income)
64%
take federal loans
43%
undergrads 25 or older
0%
study part time
The town around it

Living in Tulsa

6% of Tulsa’s 416,209 residents are enrolled in college. What the town is like, from TownRatings’ Tulsa pages.

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Nearby

Other colleges within 30 miles

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

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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 and are reported for the whole 3-campus system. Distances are straight-line. Colleges are described, not graded (how TownRatings describes colleges). Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.