Career Programs at Taft

2023 Tuition & Fees, Living Costs

The average undergraduate tuition & fees at Taft College is $9,076 for academic year 2022-2023. The amount is the average costs over all degree programs and the vocational program tuition may be lower than the average cost.

Taft College offers the alternative tuition plans .

53% of enrolled students have received grants and/or scholarships and the average amount of received financial aid is $4,166 (exclude student loans).

Taft 2023 Tuition & Fees, Living Costs
Tuition & Fees	$9,076
Average Financial Amount	$4,166

Offered Career / Vocational Programs and Completers

Taft College offers 11 vocational programs for Less than 12-Week Certificate, Less than 1-Year Certificate, and 1-2 Years Certificate programs. The following table lists number of programs by offered type and online availability along with number of completers.

Last year, 536 students have completed their career programs.

Offered Career Programs at Taft College
Award Level	Total Number of Programs	Available Online Class	Number of Completers
Less than 12 Weeks Certificate	2	0	4
Less than 1 Year Certificate	8	1	60
2 Years Certificate	1	0	2
Total	11	1	536

Programs by Award Level

The following table summarizes the number of completers by program and award level.

4 students have earned/completed Less than 12 Weeks Certificate program.
60 students have earned/completed Less than 1 Year Certificate program.
2 students have earned/completed 1-2 Years Certificate program.
470 students have earned/completed Associate's program.

Less than 12 Weeks Certificate Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Engineering Technology [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Industrial Safety Technology/Technician	✕	4	-
Legal Studies [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Court Reporting/Court Reporter	✕	0	-
	Total	4

Less than 1 Year Certificate Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Education [+]	✕	6 completers	-
Special Education and Teaching	✕	4	-
Education/Teaching of Individuals in Early Childhood Special Education Programs	✕	2	-
Engineering Technology [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Industrial Safety Technology/Technician	✕	3	-
Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields (other)	✕	1	-
Work and Family Studies [+]	✔ (1 completers)	46 completers	-
Child Care Provider/Assistant	✔	46	-
Precision Production Trades [+]	✕	1 completers	-
Welding Technology/Welder	✕	1	-
Business [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Office Management and Supervision	✕	2	-
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science	✕	1	-
	Total	60

1-2 Years Certificate Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Work and Family Studies [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Child Care Provider/Assistant	✕	2	-
	Total	2

Associate's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Education [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Special Education and Teaching	✕	3	-
Engineering [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Pre-Engineering	✕	7	-
Engineering Technology [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Industrial Safety Technology/Technician	✕	6	-
Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields (other)	✕	1	-
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Spanish Language and Literature	✕	7	-
Work and Family Studies [+]	✕	38 completers	-
Child Care Provider/Assistant	✕	38	-
English Language and Literature [+]	✕	12 completers	-
English Language and Literature	✕	12	-
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities [+]	✕	84 completers	-
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies	✕	25	-
Humanities/Humanistic Studies	✕	59	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences [+]	✕	31 completers	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	✕	31	-
Mathematics and Statistics [+]	✕	8 completers	-
Mathematics	✕	8	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies [+]	✕	37 completers	-
Biological and Physical Sciences	✕	37	-
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Health and Physical Education/Fitness	✕	5	-
Kinesiology and Exercise Science	✕	2	-
Physical Sciences [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Physical Sciences	✕	2	-
Psychology [+]	✕	36 completers	-
Psychology	✕	36	-
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting [+]	✕	40 completers	-
Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration	✕	40	-
Criminal Justice/Police Science	✕	0	-
Social Sciences [+]	✕	18 completers	-
Economics	✕	3	-
Sociology	✕	15	-
Precision Production Trades [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Welding Technology/Welder	✕	0	-
Visual and Performing Arts [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Visual and Performing Arts	✕	2	-
Art/Art Studies	✕	2	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	19 completers	-
Dental Hygiene/Hygienist	✕	19	-
Business [+]	✕	56 completers	-
Business/Commerce	✕	10	-
Business Administration and Management	✕	38	-
Office Management and Supervision	✕	2	-
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science	✕	6	-
History [+]	✕	4 completers	-
History	✕	4	-
	Total	470

Admission, Enrollment, and Graduation

Total 4,508 students are attending at Taft College. There are 44 full-time faculty (instructional/teaching staffs) and 76 part-time faculty teaching for the school.

The students to faculty ratio is 27 to 1 (3.70%). The number of non-teaching staffs is 168 (full-time) and 131 (part-time).

The graduation rate of Taft College is 33% and transfer-out rate is 9%. The retention rate is 73% at the school.

Taft 2023 Key Statistics
Student Population	4,508
Graduation Rate	33%
Number of Faculty	120
Student to Faculty Ratio	27 to 1

Student Population at Taft

For the academic year 2021-2022, total 3,943 students enrolled into Taft College. By gender, 1,939 male and 2,004 female students are attending the school.

The following table summarizes the student population by gender and attending status for Taft College.

Student Population By Gender
Taft College
	Total	Male	Female
Total	3,943	1,939	2,004
Full-time	852	273	579
Part-tme	3,091	1,666	1,425

There are 1,005 White (25.49%), 161 Black/African American (4.08%), 2,529 Hispanic (64.14%), 104 Asian (2.64%), and 2,662 students with other races attending Taft College. 4 students are enrolled with non-resident alien status.

Student Population By Race/ethnicity at Taft College
	Total	Male	Female
Total	3,943	1,939	2,004
American Indian/Native American	18	10	8
Asian	104	56	48
Black/African American	161	85	76
Hispanic	2,529	1,258	1,271
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	11	1	10
White	1,005	484	521
Two More	95	35	60
Un-Known	16	7	9
Non-resident Alien	4	3	1

Taft College offers the distance learning opportunities (online classes) for career programs.

1,051 students (26.65% of total students) are enrolled online exclusively and 681 students (17.27% of total students) are enrolled some online courses. The following table summarizes the online student population for Taft College.

Distance Learning Student Population at Taft College
	Number of Students
Total	3,943
Enrolled Online Exclusively	1,051
Enrolled Some Online Courses	681
Not in Online Courses	2,211

By age range, at Taft College, 900 students are aged 20 to 24 (22.83% of total students), 1,133 students are aged below 20 (28.73%), 241 students are aged above 50 (10.91%).

Graduate Student Population By Age at Taft College
	Total	Male	Female
Total	3,943	1,939	2,004
Under 18	493	157	336
Age 18-19	640	287	353
Age 20-21	445	193	252
Age 22-24	455	183	272
Age 25-29	548	266	282
Age 30-34	426	223	203
Age 35-39	342	213	129
Age 40-49	353	241	112
Age 50-64	215	156	59
Over 64	26	20	6

Directory and Accreditation Information

Taft College is accredited by Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (1/1/1952 - Current).

The following list shows the contact and directory information of Taft College.

29 Cougar Court, Taft, CA

661-763-7700

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