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Colleges near Virginia Lakes · College Scorecard

The nearest college is 61 miles from Virginia Lakes

Columbia College in Columbia, CA. No college is within 30 miles of Virginia Lakes.

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Columbia College
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Colleges near Virginia Lakes

The closest colleges to Virginia Lakes.

Straight-line distance. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Dashed rows are too small, or report too little to the Department of Education, for a page of their own.

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Do students finish, and does it pay?

Each dot is a college near Virginia Lakes: across is the share who graduate, up is what they earn ten years after starting.

$0$20k$40k$60k$80k 0%25%50%75%100% Graduate → Columbia CollegeLake Tahoe Community CollegeUniversity of California-Merced
Columbia College27% graduate$39k earnings— typical debt
Lake Tahoe Community College45% graduate$37k earnings— typical debt
University of California-Merced69% graduate$64k earnings$16k typical debt

Graduation: first-time, full-time students within 6 years (4-year colleges) or 3 years (2-year). Earnings: median, students on federal aid. A college that’s part of a larger system reports earnings for the whole system.

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Colleges: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard and IPEDS (Scorecard 06/10/2026 · IPEDS 2024 · fall 2023). “On campus” counts fall enrollment minus students who study only online. Net price is the average a year after grants for families on federal aid; earnings are the median 10 years after starting, for students who got federal aid. Distances are straight-line from the center of Virginia Lakes. Town figures: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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