Bachelor's · Visalia, California
Is Dental Support Services and Allied Professions at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $86,189
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,884
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $129k (likely $129k – $176k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $50k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.7 years (likely 2.8–5.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $154k (likely $10k – $309k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $684k (likely $399k – $999k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 38%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Dental Support Services and Allied Professions at other schools in California
- University of Southern California$91,726
- University of the Pacific$86,150
- West Coast University-Anaheim-Orange County$85,797
- Foothill College$82,028
- Loma Linda University$79,207