Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Allan Hancock College reported 15 women’s basketball participants in the Equity in Athletics return it filed for 2025-26. That is the institution’s own count of the squad, not a roster page Athlavia has read, and it is the figure the United States Department of Education publishes.
It competes in California CC (CCCAA), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 92 CCCAA women's basketball programmes in California, out of 161 programmes there in total.
Can it award a basketball scholarship?
The California Community College Athletic Association forbids athletic scholarships outright. What makes these colleges affordable is low tuition and state fee waivers — not athletic aid, and a recruiter who implies otherwise is wrong.
Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a CCCAA institution is describing something the rules do not allow.
What it costs and what it is like
No cost snapshot is held for Allan Hancock College. Athlavia will not print an estimate in its place — tuition varies by residency, by course and by year, and a made-up number is worse than an empty one. The institution’s own admissions pages carry the published figures.
- Type
- Public
- Enrolment
- 3,179
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Santa Maria
- State or region
- California
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 0%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Agricultural Business and Management.
- Agricultural Production Operations.
- Agriculture, General.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Anthropology.
- Apparel and Textiles.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Science.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Dance.
- Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
- Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Fire Protection.
- Food Science and Technology.
- Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Graphic Communications.
- History.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Human Services, General.
- International Relations and National Security Studies.
- Legal Support Services.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Mathematics.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Music.
- Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.
- Precision Metal Working.
- Psychology, General.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Sciences, General.
- Sociology.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Teaching Assistants/Aides.
- Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
How it compares
Across the 92 CCCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. Allan Hancock College lists 15, 2 players above that average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 13th largest listed squad.
Squad size is a fact about the return, not a judgement about the programme. A large squad can mean depth or it can mean a long bench; a small one can mean minutes are available or that the roster is already settled. It is a question to ask a coach, not an answer.
Where these figures came from
| Field | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squad size | 152025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 52-722025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($5,322/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 62). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 67 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Agricultural Production Operations. | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only | 12 Aug 2026 | 90% |
| institutionProfile | held — free account | api.data.govCollege Scorecard v1 /schools, fields school.locale, location.lat, location.lon, latest.student.demographics.race_ethnicity.non_resident_alien, school.school_url read verbatim | 12 Aug 2026 | 92% |
Every stored fact carries the source it came from, the date it was read and how it was extracted. Figures shown on this page without a row above are recorded with the source on the record itself — the athletic aid figure, for instance, carries the Department of Education’s athletics site as its source.