West Valley College F grade
On the fields this project checks, this institution published almost nothing a reader could use.
- Disclosure score
- 36%
- State
- CA
- IPEDS unit id
- 125499
What was disclosed
| Field | Status | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Admission rate | Not reported | No value and no stated reason. This is the one that counts against a publisher. |
| Completion rate, 150% of normal time | Not reported | No value and no stated reason. This is the one that counts against a publisher. |
| Enrollment | Reported | A credible value was published. |
| In-state tuition | Implausible | A value was published but falls outside the credible range for this field. Counted as a disclosure failure: a gap is visible to a reader, a wrong number is not. |
| Median debt at completion | Not reported | No value and no stated reason. This is the one that counts against a publisher. |
| Median earnings 10 years after entry | Reported | A credible value was published. |
Values that do not look like measurements
These were published, so they are not gaps. They fall outside the credible range for their field, which is a judgement this project made and states in full so it can be argued with.
- In-state tuition published as
0.Peer check, public associate-predominant institutions in CA: 0 of 77 comparable institutions publish this value; the rest range from 1,108 to 1,571 (median 1,270)
A published tuition of exactly zero is nearly always an unpopulated field rather than a free institution. The handful of genuinely tuition-free colleges are a known, small set and are better served by an explicit exemption than by a silent zero.
This is a measure of disclosure, not of quality. An institution that reports everything and performs badly scores higher here than a good school that reports nothing, and that is intended. If you believe a field is marked wrongly, the methodology states every rule and the reasoning behind it.