Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Orange Coast College reported 16 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
A published cost is held for 2023-24: tuition, mandatory fees, room and board, insurance and a travel estimate, with the international tuition rate separately where the institution publishes one.
A single yearly total tells a family almost nothing. What decides whether a place is reachable is which line is the big one, and whether the international rate differs — so Athlavia shows the lines, not a headline.
- Type
- Public
- Enrolment
- 6,076
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Costa Mesa
- State or region
- California
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 5%
Degrees recorded here
Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.
- Accounting and Related Services.
- Air Transportation.
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
- Anthropology.
- Apparel and Textiles.
- Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
- Architectural Sciences and Technology.
- Area Studies.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics.
- Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
- Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Biology, General.
- Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations.
- Business/Commerce, General.
- Chemistry.
- Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Programming.
- Computer Science.
- Computer Software and Media Applications.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Dance.
- Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Economics.
- Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
- Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
- Fine and Studio Arts.
- Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
- General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
- Geography and Cartography.
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
- 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.
- International Business.
- Journalism.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
- Marine Sciences.
- Marine Transportation.
- Mathematics.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Precision Metal Working.
- Psychology, General.
- Public Health.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Real Estate.
- Religion/Religious Studies.
- 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.
- Teaching Assistants/Aides.
- 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. Orange Coast College lists 16, 3 players above that average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 8th 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 | 162025-26 | ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball | 12 Aug 2026 | 96% |
| recruitingBand | 36-562025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($3,767/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 46). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 78 undergraduate degrees listed, including Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services., Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Architectural Sciences and Technology. | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only | 12 Aug 2026 | 90% |
| Tuition | held — free account2023-24 | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard fields latest.cost.tuition.in_state and latest.cost.tuition.out_of_state | 12 Aug 2026 | 92% |
| costOfAttendance | held — free account2023-24 | collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus | 12 Aug 2026 | 92% |
| 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.