College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings
Columbia College
Sonora, CA · Public · Associate-granting · 1,984 undergrads
Most students who start here do not finish — and the debt is owed whether or not you graduate.
For 2-year colleges this undercounts students who transfer to a 4-year school before finishing here.
Average annual price after grants & scholarships.
What former students go on to earn
The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.
49% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.
What these numbers are — and are not
Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.
→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major . See Columbia College by field of study on the official Scorecard (this school's programs are below the Dept. of Education's reporting threshold here).
Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website