Butte College

Overview

Rankings

• #1 Best Community Colleges for Nursing
• #5 Best Criminal Justice Colleges in California
• #7 Best Nursing Colleges in California
• #18 Most Affordable Colleges in California
• #28 Best Psychology Colleges in California
• #28 Best Online Education Programs in California
• #37 Best Online Colleges in California
• #42 Best Computer Science Colleges in California

Academics & Admissions

Is It Hard to Get Into Butte College? Acceptance Rate & Requirements

Based in Oroville, California, Butte College enrolls students across a range of programs. The graduation rate is roughly 38%.

Retention Rate

68%

Full-Time Faculty

31%

Faculty Salary (mo)

$12,031

Student–Faculty Ratio

20:1

Diversity Index

0.65

First-Gen Students

51%

Cost & Financial Aid

How Much Does It Cost to Attend Butte College? Tuition, Net Price & Aid

Published tuition at Butte College is $9,276, but few families pay that. The number to watch is net price, what students actually pay each year after federal grants and institutional scholarships. Here it averages about $5,520. Students from families earning under $30,000 typically pay closer to $4,944 after need-based grants. The median graduate leaves with about $10,500 in federal student loans.

In-State Tuition

$1,356

Out-of-State

$9,276

Avg Net Price

$5,520

Median Debt

$10,500

Pell Grant Rate

35%

Federal Loan Rate

3%

Students Like You

Tell us a little about yourself to see what students like you have typically experienced at Butte College — the net price for your income, your admission odds, and the outcomes that follow. These are patterns from federal data, not predictions.

Graduate Outcomes

Is Butte College Worth It? Graduate Earnings & ROI

Ten years out, alumni of Butte College report median earnings of $41,810, a figure worth comparing against the cost of attendance before enrolling.

6 Years After Entry

$33,709

8 Years

$37,882

10 Years

$41,810

Debt-to-Earnings

0.25x

Earning > $25K

43%

Social Mobility

Data: Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card · 30M+ anonymized tax records

Does Butte College Drive Upward Mobility? Economic Mobility & Low-Income Outcomes

Butte College is a genuine engine of upward mobility. Its mobility rate, the share of students who start in the bottom income quintile and climb to the top, is 1.96%, well above the typical college. Access is a real strength here. Roughly 16.1% of students come from families in the bottom income quintile, a high share that gives low-income students a real foothold. Among bottom-quintile students who attend, roughly 12.2% go on to reach the top of the income ladder. The median family income of students sits near $64,100, a snapshot of the campus's socioeconomic mix.

Mobility Rate

1.96%

Bottom 20% → Top 20%

Success Rate

12.2%

If bottom 20% get in

From Bottom 20%

16.1%

Share of students

Parent Median Income

$87,089

today's $ (2015 cohort data)

Social Capital

Data: Opportunity Insights Social Capital Atlas

How Connected Is Butte College? Social Capital & Cross-Class Networks

Social capital, the web of cross-class friendships that researchers link to long-run upward mobility, runs below average at Butte College. Its economic connectedness score is 0.84, where about 1.0 is the national norm. Its friending bias sits near the middle of the range (0.08). Around 8% of students take part in civic and volunteering activity.

Economic Connectedness

0.84

Cross-class friendships

Friending Bias

0.08

Lower = more inclusive

Volunteering Rate

7.6%

Support Ratio

0.98

Community support

Institutional Finances

Data: NCES IPEDS

Endowment

$5,219,454

Investment Income

$-5,647,998

Top Programs

The fields Butte College awards the most degrees in, by share of completions. Where federal field-of-study data exists, we show what graduates in that major earned early in their careers. Each links to its degree guide — or see what someone with your income, scores, and major would pay and earn here in the Students Like You simulator.

• Health Professions 25% $108,078 early-career
• Social Sciences 14% $31,771 early-career
• Criminal Justice 12% $67,300 early-career
• Business & Marketing 9%
• Culinary & Personal Services 4%
• Psychology 4%
• Precision Production 4%
• Computer Science & IT 4%

Early-career median earnings by major (typically 1–2 years after completion, bachelor's level where available), in today's dollars (CPI-adjusted). Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard field of study. Distinct from the school-wide 10-year median; suppressed for small programs.