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  West Los Angeles College
9000 Overland Avenue
Culver City, CA 90230-3519
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(310) 287-4200 Ext.
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Type of institution: Public, 2-year
Federal Aid: Institution has a Program Participation Agreement with the US Department of Education for eligible students to receive Pell Grants and other federal aid.
Degrees offered: Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate, Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate, Associate degree
Carnegie classification: Associate's--Public Urban-serving Multicampus
Number of students: 8,680 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$ ----

Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$590$698$676
Out of State$5,585$4,832$4,320
Books and Supplies$1,482$1,314$1,287
On-Campus
Room and board------------
Other Expenses------------
Off Campus
Room and board$9,936$8,910$9,117
Other Expenses$3,348$3,528$3,213
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses$3,330$3,780$3,177

Financial aid 2005-2006

Financial aid to full-time, first-time undergraduate students

Type of AidPercentage of students receiving aidAverage amount of aid they received
Federal Grants (scholarship/fellowship) 28% $2,889
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 55% $755
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 0% ----
Loans to students 1% $4,187
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-1-year certificate Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations: A program that prepares individuals to provide direct retail services to hotel and motel clients and customers in a variety of settings. Includes instruction in the principles of hotel/motel operations, customer sa...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Real Estate
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-1-year certificate Real Estate: A program that prepares individuals to develop, buy, sell, appraise, and manage real property. Includes instruction in land use development policy, real estate law, real estate marketing procedures, agency management, brokerage, property inspection an...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Computer Graphics
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-1-year certificate Computer Graphics: A program that focuses on the software, hardware, and mathematical tools used to represent, display, and manipulate topological, two-, and three-dimensional objects on a computer screen and that prepares individuals to function as computer graphi...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Computer and Information Sciences
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-1-year certificate Computer and Information Sciences, General: A general program that focuses on computing, computer science, and information science and systems as part of a broad and/or interdisciplinary program. Such programs are undifferentiated as to title and content and are no...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Child Development
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-1-year certificate Child Development: A program that focuses on the intellectual, social, emotional, and biological development of children and the planning and design of related human services. Includes instruction in parent-child relations; parenting practices; special needs of ch...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Business Administration and Management
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-1-year certificate Business Administration and Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and b...

Certificates/Less-than-1-year certificate
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-1-year certificate Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to perform the duties of administrative assistants and/or secretaries and stenographers. Includes instruction in business communications, principles of busines...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations: A program that prepares individuals to provide direct retail services to hotel and motel clients and customers in a variety of settings. Includes instruction in the principles of hotel/motel operations, customer sa...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Selling Skills and Sales Operations
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Selling Skills and Sales Operations: A program that prepares individuals to possess the skills associated with direct promotion of products and services to potential customers and to function as independent sales representatives and managers. Includes instruction ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Legal Assistant + Paralegal
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Legal Assistant + Paralegal: A program that prepares individuals to perform research, drafting, investigatory, record-keeping and related administrative functions under the supervision of an attorney or court. Includes instruction in legal research, drafting legal...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Hazardous Materials Management and Waste Technology + Technician
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Hazardous Materials Management and Waste Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers and other professionals engaged in identifying and disposing of hazardous materi...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Computer and Information Sciences
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Computer and Information Sciences, General: A general program that focuses on computing, computer science, and information science and systems as part of a broad and/or interdisciplinary program. Such programs are undifferentiated as to title and content and are no...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Business + Commerce
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Business + Commerce, General: A program that focuses on the general study of business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public a...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Airframe Mechanics and Aircraft Maintenance Technology + Technician
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Airframe Mechanics and Aircraft Maintenance Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, service, and maintain all aircraft components other than engines, propellers, avionics, and instruments. Inc...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Aircraft Powerplant Technology + Technician
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Aircraft Powerplant Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, service, and maintain all types of aircraft powerplant and related systems. Instruction includes engine inspection and maintenance, ...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to perform the duties of administrative assistants and/or secretaries and stenographers. Includes instruction in business communications, principles of busines...

Certificates/Less-than-2-year certificate
Accounting
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-2-year certificate Accounting: A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget contr...

Associate degree
Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Tourism and Travel Services Marketing Operations: A program that prepares individuals to provide direct retail services to hotel and motel clients and customers in a variety of settings. Includes instruction in the principles of hotel/motel operations, customer sales and assi...

Associate degree
Speech and Rhetorical Studies
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Speech and Rhetorical Studies: A program that focuses on human interpersonal communication from the scientific/behavioral and humanistic perspectives. Includes instruction in the theory and physiology of speech, the history of discourse, the structure and analysis of argument...

Associate degree
Spanish Language and Literature
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Spanish Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the Spanish language and related dialects. Includes instruction in Spanish philology, Modern Castillan, various Latin American dialects, regional Spanish dialects, and applications in business, science/technology, and...

Associate degree
Sociology
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Sociology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human social institutions and social relationships. Includes instruction in social theory, sociological research methods, social organization and structure, social stratification and hierarchies, dynamics of social ...

Associate degree
Small Business Administration + Management
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Small Business Administration + Management: A program that prepares individuals to develop and manage independent small businesses. Includes instruction in business administration; enterprise planning and entrepreneurship; start-up; small business operations and problems; per...

Associate degree
Selling Skills and Sales Operations
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Selling Skills and Sales Operations: A program that prepares individuals to possess the skills associated with direct promotion of products and services to potential customers and to function as independent sales representatives and managers. Includes instruction in consumer ...

Associate degree
Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General.
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General: A program that focuses on the general process and techniques of direct wholesale and retail buying and selling operations and introduces individuals to related careers. Includes instruction in the principles of entrepren...

Associate degree
Real Estate
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Real Estate: A program that prepares individuals to develop, buy, sell, appraise, and manage real property. Includes instruction in land use development policy, real estate law, real estate marketing procedures, agency management, brokerage, property inspection and appraisal,...

Associate degree
Psychology
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Psychology, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of individual and collective behavior, the physical and environmental bases of behavior, and the analysis and treatment of behavior problems and disorders. Includes instruction in the principles of th...

Associate degree
Political Science and Government
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Political Science and Government, General: A general program that focuses on the systematic study of political institutions and behavior. Includes instruction in political philosophy, political theory, comparative government and politics, political parties and interest group...

Associate degree
Physics
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Physics, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of matter and energy, and the formulation and testing of the laws governing the behavior of the matter-energy continuum. Includes instruction in classical and modern physics, electricity and magnetism, t...

Associate degree
Philosophy
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Philosophy: A program that focuses on ideas and their logical structure, including arguments and investigations about abstract and real phenomena. Includes instruction in logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, symbolism, and history of philosophy, and applicati...

Associate degree
Music
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Music, General: A general program that focuses on the introductory study and appreciation of music and the performing arts. Includes instruction in music, dance, and other performing arts media.

Associate degree
Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Liberal Arts and Sciences + Liberal Studies: A program that is a structured combination of the arts, biological and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, emphasizing breadth of study. Includes instruction in independently designed, individualized, or regular pro...

Associate degree
Legal Assistant + Paralegal
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Legal Assistant + Paralegal: A program that prepares individuals to perform research, drafting, investigatory, record-keeping and related administrative functions under the supervision of an attorney or court. Includes instruction in legal research, drafting legal documents, ...

Associate degree
History
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree History, General: A program that focuses on the general study and interpretation of the past, including the gathering, recording, synthesizing and criticizing of evidence and theories about past events. Includes instruction in historiography; historical research methods; stud...

Associate degree
Health + Medical Preparatory Programs
Other
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Health + Medical Preparatory Programs, Other: Any instructional program in health and medical first-professional preparation not listed in the Health/Medical Preparatory Programs, General category.

Associate degree
Hazardous Materials Management and Waste Technology + Technician
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Hazardous Materials Management and Waste Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers and other professionals engaged in identifying and disposing of hazardous materials. Includ...

Associate degree
Geology + Earth Science
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Geology + Earth Science, General: A program that focuses on the scientific study of the earth; the forces acting upon it; and the behavior of the solids, liquids and gases comprising it. Includes instruction in historical geology, geomorphology, and sedimentology, the chemist...

Associate degree
Geography
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Geography: A program that focuses on the systematic study of the spatial distribution and interrelationships of people, natural resources, plant and animal life. Includes instruction in historical and political geography, cultural geography, economic and physical geography, r...

Associate degree
English Language and Literature
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree English Language and Literature, General: A general program that focuses on the English language, including its history, structure and related communications skills; and the literature and culture of English-speaking peoples.

Associate degree
Engineering
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Engineering, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to solve a wide variety of practical problems in industry, social organization, public works, and commerce.

Associate degree
Economics
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Economics, General: A general program that focuses on the systematic study of the production, conservation and allocation of resources in conditions of scarcity, together with the organizational frameworks related to these processes. Includes instruction in economic theory, m...

Associate degree
Drawing
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Drawing: A program that prepares individuals creatively and technically to express emotions, ideas, or inner visions through representation by lines made on a surface. Includes instruction in eye-hand coordination; line, value, shape, and perspective; figure and still life dr...

Associate degree
Dental Hygiene + Hygienist
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Dental Hygiene + Hygienist: A program that prepares individuals to clean teeth and apply preventive materials; provide oral health education and treatment counseling to patients; identify oral pathologies and injuries; and manage dental hygiene practices. Includes instruction...

Associate degree
Criminal Justice + Police Science
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Criminal Justice + Police Science: A program that prepares individuals to perform the duties of police and public security officers, including patrol and investigative activities, traffic control, crowd control and public relations, witness interviewing, evidence collection an...

Associate degree
Computer and Information Sciences
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Computer and Information Sciences, General: A general program that focuses on computing, computer science, and information science and systems as part of a broad and/or interdisciplinary program. Such programs are undifferentiated as to title and content and are not to be conf...

Associate degree
Chemistry
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Chemistry, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of the composition and behavior of matter, including its micro- and macro-structure, the processes of chemical change, and the theoretical description and laboratory simulation of these phenomena.

Associate degree
Business Administration and Management
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Business Administration and Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and behavior, acc...

Associate degree
Business + Commerce
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Business + Commerce, General: A program that focuses on the general study of business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public and private i...

Associate degree
Biology + Biological Sciences
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Biology + Biological Sciences, General: A general program of biology at the introductory, basic level or a program in biology or the biological sciences that is undifferentiated as to title or content. Includes instruction in general biology and programs covering a variety of...

Associate degree
Anthropology
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Anthropology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleont...

Associate degree
Aeronautical + Aerospace Engineering Technology + Technician
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Aeronautical + Aerospace Engineering Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers and other professionals engaged in developing, manufacturing and testing aircraft, spacecraft an...

Associate degree
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to perform the duties of administrative assistants and/or secretaries and stenographers. Includes instruction in business communications, principles of business law, word ...

Associate degree
Accounting
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Associate degree Accounting: A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, tax acco...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Real Estate
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-4-year certificate Real Estate: A program that prepares individuals to develop, buy, sell, appraise, and manage real property. Includes instruction in land use development policy, real estate law, real estate marketing procedures, agency management, brokerage, property inspection an...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Legal Assistant + Paralegal
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-4-year certificate Legal Assistant + Paralegal: A program that prepares individuals to perform research, drafting, investigatory, record-keeping and related administrative functions under the supervision of an attorney or court. Includes instruction in legal research, drafting legal...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Information Technology
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-4-year certificate Information Technology: A program that focuses on the design of technological information systems, including computing systems, as solutions to business and research data and communications support needs. Includes instruction in the principles of computer hardware...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Business + Commerce
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-4-year certificate Business + Commerce, General: A program that focuses on the general study of business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public a...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Aircraft Powerplant Technology + Technician
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-4-year certificate Aircraft Powerplant Technology + Technician: A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair, service, and maintain all types of aircraft powerplant and related systems. Instruction includes engine inspection and maintenance, ...

Certificates/Less-than-4-year certificate
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science
General
West Los Angeles College

General Description for:
West Los Angeles College Less-than-4-year certificate Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to perform the duties of administrative assistants and/or secretaries and stenographers. Includes instruction in business communications, principles of busines...

 
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