Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. MiraCosta College reported 12 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 MiraCosta 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
- 4,412
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Oceanside
- State or region
- California
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- suburban
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 1%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Anthropology.
- Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Behavioral Sciences.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Biology/Biotechnology Technologies/Technicians.
- Biology/Biotechnology Technologies/Technicians.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Programming.
- Computer Science.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Dance.
- Data Entry/Microcomputer Applications.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Economics.
- Education, General.
- Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
- Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Food Science and Technology.
- Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Graphic Communications.
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
- Health and Medical Administrative Services.
- Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
- History.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- Human Services, General.
- Landscape Architecture.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
- Mathematics.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Non-Professional Legal Studies.
- Physical Sciences, General.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.
- Psychology, General.
- Psychology, Other.
- Public Health.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Real Estate.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Sciences, General.
- Sociology.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
- Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Visual and Performing Arts, General.
How it compares
Across the 92 CCCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. MiraCosta College lists 12, almost exactly the divisional average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 42nd 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 | 122025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 3-232025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($1,753/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 13). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 77 undergraduate degrees listed, including Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services., Food Science and Technology., Natural Resources Conservation and Research. | 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.