Best colleges and universities in Santa Cruz

There are 6 institutions in Santa Cruz: 4 private colleges and 2 public colleges.
Every university in Santa Cruz have a different amount of degree programs, ranged from 3 (UEI College-Santa Cruz) to 372 (University of California-Santa Cruz). Also Santa Cruz colleges have from 4:1 to 30:1 student-to-faculty ratios.

The acceptance rate in Santa Cruz is 56%. The most popular test to enter an institution in Santa Cruz county is SAT - 80% of students submitted it.
The average annual total costs of attendance at Santa Cruz universities range between 8,234$ to 16,086$. The average percent of Santa Cruz students with financial aid is 32%.
The completion of full-time universities education programs in Santa Cruz is between 27% and 91%. Average salary after attending the Santa Cruz’s institutions ranges between $21,700 and $43,000. Please look all the details below.

Find Colleges Near Santa Cruz County that Match Your Needs!

Use the Find Colleges Near You button to create a list of colleges sorted by distance from you to the each college in Santa Cruz or all the US. You could manually set up how many miles around you the tool should perform a search - 50 miles is used by default. At the results page you could filter the results by degree, type of school or major. If you want to use search field instead of a button, you’ll get the list of Santa Cruz colleges sorted by distance from its administrative center.

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Average Santa Cruz County Cost

$7,922

BELOW AVERAGE

The average annual total cost of attendance in Santa Cruz county colleges is 7,922$, that is below the national average by 6,012 dollars. National average is based on costs of attendance for all institutions in US and includes tuition, fees, books and living, minus the average grant/scholarship aid.