Cuyamaca College Overview

Located in El Cajon, California, Cuyamaca College is a public institution. Cuyamaca College is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

What Is Cuyamaca College Known For?

• Students at Cuyamaca College have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 2%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The associate's degree is the highest award offered at Cuyamaca College.
• For the <nil> academic year, 31% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Cuyamaca College?

Contact details for Cuyamaca College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	900 Rancho San Diego Pky, El Cajon, CA 92019
Phone:	619-660-4000
Website:	www.cuyamaca.edu

How Do I Get Into Cuyamaca College?

You can apply to Cuyamaca College online at: https://www.cuyamaca.edu/admissions/how-to-apply/index.php

Since Cuyamaca College has an open admissions policy, you should not have any trouble getting into the school as long as you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Can I Afford Cuyamaca College?

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Cuyamaca College, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $2,567 a year. That adds up to $10,268 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Cuyamaca College is 1.6%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Cuyamaca College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 7,809 undergraduate students at Cuyamaca College, with 1,379 being full-time and 6,430 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,379 full-time undergraduates at Cuyamaca College, 46% are male and 54% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Cuyamaca College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	32
Black or African American	33
Hispanic or Latino	405
White	700
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	205

Over 16 countries are represented at Cuyamaca College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, Japan, and China.

Online Learning at Cuyamaca College

In 2020-2021, 5,561 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Cuyamaca College has changed over the last few years.

Online Growth Rankings of Cuyamaca College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Cuyamaca College was 18.7%. This is the #1,104 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Cuyamaca College regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.