Does it field a women’s basketball team?
Yes. Santa Barbara City 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 Santa Barbara City 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
- 4,711
- Selectivity
- Not recorded
- City
- Santa Barbara
- State or region
- California
- Country
- United States
- Campus setting
- city
- Climate
- Not recorded
- International share
- 3%
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.
- American Sign Language.
- Anthropology.
- Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
- 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 Operations Support and Assistant Services.
- Chemistry.
- Communication and Media Studies.
- Computer Science.
- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
- Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other.
- Computer and Information Sciences, General.
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
- Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections.
- Culinary Arts and Related Services.
- Dance.
- Design and Applied Arts.
- Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
- Economics.
- Engineering, General.
- English Language and Literature, General.
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
- Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
- Finance and Financial Management Services.
- 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 and Medical Administrative Services.
- History.
- Hospitality Administration/Management.
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
- International Business.
- International Relations and National Security Studies.
- Journalism.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
- Marine Transportation.
- Mathematics.
- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
- Music.
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Political Science and Government.
- Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.
- Psychology, General.
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
- Real Estate.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
- Social Sciences, Other.
- Sociology.
- Special Education and Teaching.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
- 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. Santa Barbara City 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 | 34-542025-26 | ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($3,634/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 44). Division is not used as an input. | 12 Aug 2026 | 55% |
| Degrees | 70 undergraduate degrees listed, including Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services., Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Area Studies. | 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.