Far WestUrbanFor-Profit4-yearVisual & Performing

Design Institute of San Diego

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

San Diego, CA92 students
Acceptance Rate
100%
less selective
Median SAT
—
Net Price After Aid
$27.7k
Sticker $29.4k
Graduation Rate
50%
6-year, full-time

Design Institute of San Diego is a for-profit institution in San Diego, CA with an acceptance rate of 100% and 92 students. The average net price after financial aid is $27,693 per year.

About Design Institute of San Diego

A for-profit 4-year urban university in San Diego, CA.

Design Institute of San Diego campus
Campus · San Diego

Design Institute of San Diego is a college in San Diego, CA. It enrolls roughly 92 students. The most recent acceptance rate is 100%.

Far WestUrbanFor-Profit4-yearVisual & Performing
Acceptance Rate
100%
Less Selective
Total Enrollment
92
Small
Retention
71%
First-years returning
Graduation Rate
50%
6-year, full-time

Your chances at this school

What admitted students look like here. Sign in to see how your own profile compares.

Acceptance Rate
100%
100 of every 100 applicants admitted
Your Chances
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Admitted Student GPA
—

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

What strengthens an application here

  1. Depth in one or two activities
    Sustained commitment, a leadership role, or a result in a few activities says more than a long list of memberships.

Your chances estimate is based on your academic profile and activities — it is a guide, not a guarantee of admission. Decisions weigh essays, recommendations, and fit factors that aren't in the data.

Admissions

What it actually takes to get into Design Institute of San Diego. Test scores, GPA, application requirements, and deadlines.

Application requirements

  • Test-optional

Cost & financial aid

Published costs can be misleading. Here's what families actually pay at Design Institute of San Diego after grants and scholarships.

Sticker price
—
Tuition $29,350
Average net price after aid
$27,693
After grants and scholarships

Net price by family income

Average amount paid out of pocket — tuition, fees, and room & board minus all grant aid.

$0 – $30,000
$28,154
$30,001 – $48,000
N/A
$48,001 – $75,000
N/A
$75,001 – $110,000
N/A
$110,001 +
$42,093

Net price represents the average cost after grants and scholarships for students receiving federal financial aid.

Pell Grant Recipients
51%
Need-based federal grant
Take Federal Loans
63%
Avg loan $24,530 / year
Avg Grant Aid
—
Per receiving student / year

Academics & majors

Where students at Design Institute of San Diego concentrate, and how the classroom experience scales.

Student : Faculty
7:1
Class-size proxy
Primary Focus
Visual & Performing
100% of degrees awarded
Retention
71%
First-years returning
A breakdown of the top majors by share of degrees awarded ships once we finish backfilling per-school program data.

Student body

Who attends Design Institute of San Diego. Enrollment, diversity, and where students come from.

Race & ethnicity

  • White56%
  • Asian10%
  • Hispanic19%
  • Black10%
  • International4%

Gender

  • Female95%
  • Male5%
International
4%
Of total enrollment
Live on Campus
—
Undergraduate residential rate
Total Enrollment
92

Outcomes after graduation

What Design Institute of San Diego graduates do next — and what they earn.

Median Earnings
$46.9k
10 years after enrollment
Employed at 2 yrs
—
Working or in grad school
Pursue Grad School
—
Within 5 years
Graduation Rate
50%
6-year, full-time

Is it worth it?

Earnings, debt, and price side by side — context for the cost-vs-payoff question, not a ranking.

Median earnings
$46.9k
10 yrs after entry
Typical debt
$24.5k
median, borrowers only
Avg. net price
$27.7k/yr
after aid
  • These numbers reflect who enrolls, not the value the school adds. A college's earnings can look high simply because it admits wealthier, higher-scoring students — not because of what happens there.
  • Earnings vary far more by major and career path than by school. A school-wide median blends engineers and artists into one number that may match no real student.
  • Federal earnings and debt figures cover only students who received federal aid, so they leave out full-pay students and can skew the picture.
  • Net price is an average across aided students and debt is the median for borrowers only — many students borrow nothing. Your actual cost depends on your own aid package.

What this means

$47k is below the national bachelor's-graduate median at the 10-year mark, and a 50% graduation rate is below the national average.

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