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Butte College (California): 18 training programs — cost, completion, employment and earnings from the federal record
Butte College (Higher Ed: Associate's Degree), 3536 Butte Campus Drive, Oroville has 18 programs on California’s Training Provider Results list leading to: AS Degree; AS Degree - Licensed Vocational Nursing; AS Degree in Computer Programming; AS Welding Degree; Accounting Certificate of Achievement; Advanced Manufacturing Certificate of Achievement and 12 more. The table prints what the provider reported for each: the published cost, how many students exited, the share who completed, the share employed in the second quarter after exit, and their median earnings in that quarter — as reported, with the federal definition of every column below. Nothing is ranked, imputed or estimated. Snapshot taken 2026-09-02.
| # | Program (provider’s page) · credential · code | Published cost basis | Length | Exited | Completed | Employed Q2 after exit | Median earnings, Q2 (one quarter) | Avg WIOA ITA $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accounting (AS Degree) | $5,742 | 18 wk · 15 hrs | 48 | 79% | 74% | $10,904 | — |
| 2 | Accounting (Certificate of Achievement) | $2,704 | 18 wk · 15 hrs | 21 | 100% | 53% | $10,100 | — |
| 3 | Advanced Manufacturing (Certificate of Achievement) | $6,404 | 34 wk · 35 hrs | 124 | 85% | 96% | $10,700 | — |
| 4 | Automotive Technology (Certificate Of Achievement) | $5,508 | 85 wk · 20 hrs | 107 | 48% | 85% | $7,710 | $3,215 |
| 5 | Computer Programming (AS Degree) | $3,510 | 18 wk · 15 hrs | 102 | 16% | 64% | $18,500 | — |
| 6 | Cosmetology (Certificate of Achievement) | $3,318 | 34 wk · 35 hrs | 108 | 55% | 36% | $8,089 | $2,059 |
| 7 | Early Childhood Education (Certificate) | $871 | 17 wk · 12 hrs | 32 | 78% | 12% | $6,500 | — |
| 8 | Firefighter I Academy | $5,222 | 20 wk · 40 hrs | 197 | 81% | 46% | $12,204 | $4,133 |
| 9 | Heavy Equipment Operator Technician (Certificate) | $2,045 | 34 wk · 31 hrs | 112 | 63% | — | — | $1,655 |
| 10 | Law Enforcement Academy - Basic (AS Degree) | $5,500 | 23 wk · 40 hrs | 252 | 76% | — | — | — |
| 11 | Law Enforcement Academy - Basic/Fish and Wildlife Emphasis (Certificate) | $5,500 | 30 wk · 40 hrs | 183 | 81% | 30% | $11,926 | — |
| 12 | Law Enforcement Academy - Basic/State Parks Emphasis | $4,400 | 17 wk · 15 hrs | 82 | 84% | — | — | — |
| 13 | Licensed Vocational Nursing | $6,424 | 51 wk · 15 hrs | 34 | 85% | 58% | $14,955 | $2,808 |
| 14 | Paramedic Program (Certificate) | $4,679 | 34 wk · 20 hrs | 48 | 60% | 16% | $8,500 | — |
| 15 | Registered Nursing | $8,137 | 68 wk · 25 hrs | 369 | 92% | 64% | — | $3,006 |
| 16 | Registered Nursing: LVN to ADN ( AS Degree) | $7,852 | 34 wk · 12 hrs | 91 | 87% | 69% | — | $2,771 |
| 17 | Respiratory Care (AS Degree) | $7,411 | 68 wk · 20 hrs | 87 | 78% | 26% | $17,767 | $2,108 |
| 18 | Welding Technology (AS Degree) | $9,845 | 68 wk · 15 hrs | 231 | 47% | 89% | $9,312 | $3,722 |
Source and date: U.S. Department of Labor, Training Provider Results — the open program index behind trainingproviderresults.gov (state Eligible Training Provider performance reports, form ETA-9171), snapshot taken 2026-09-02; the site states the data cover programs approved as of June 30, 2025 and outcomes for July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2025. Cost is tuition and fees for a non-WIOA participant where the provider reported it (books and supplies added only when reported separately), otherwise the average WIOA training-account dollars per participant — the basis is printed under each figure. The provider’s own program page is linked where it reported one; RetrainMap has not verified those links.
How to read the columns — the federal data dictionary
Definitions from the TrainingProviderResults.gov Data Dictionary v4.0 (2024-05-15), as shipped in the dataset’s data_dictionary.csv. Median earnings are one calendar quarter, not a year. Percentages of small cohorts are noisy — read the exited count first. A dash means the federal file prints −1 (suppressed: small cohort, not reported, or flagged) — blank here, never zero.
- all_completed_pct (federal field field_c_completed_percent)
- Percent of All Students who completed the program (DE122/DE121) Percent, 0-100 (the federal file stores a 0-1 fraction; converted here).
- all_employed_q2_pct (federal field field_c_q2_employment_percent)
- Percent of All Students Exiters who were employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE123/DE129) Percent, 0-100 (the federal file stores a 0-1 fraction; converted here).
- all_median_earnings_q2_usd (federal field field_c_median_earnings)
- Median Earnings in the 2nd Quarter after Exit of All Students that are Employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE125)
- avg_ita_cost_per_wioa_participant_usd (federal field field_c_cost_per_wioa)
- Average number of dollars the training program received from each WIOA participant Individual Training Account (ITA) during the time period (DE138/DE135)
- non_wioa_tuition_fees_usd (federal field field_non_wioa_tuition_cost)
- Out-of-Pocket Cost for a Non-WIOA Participant: Tuition and Requested Fees (DE111)
- non_wioa_books_supplies_usd (federal field field_non_wioa_supplies_cost)
- Out-of-Pocket Cost for a Non-WIOA Participant: Books and Supplies (DE112)
- length_weeks (federal field field_program_length_weeks)
- Length of the training program in weeks, as completed by a full-time student (DE114); a suppressed value (-1) indicates it was reported as a competency-based program
- length_hours (federal field field_program_length_hours)
- Length of the training program in clock/contact hours (DE113); a suppressed value (-1) indicates it was reported as a competency-based program
- all_students_exited (federal field field_c_total_exited)
- Total number of individuals exited from the training program (DE121)
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Sources and dates
- U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration — Training Provider Results program index, https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov/ · snapshot 2026-09-02 · normalised in the RetrainMap Training Provider Outcomes dataset (suppressed −1 cells blank; percentages 0–100; nothing imputed)
- TrainingProviderResults.gov Data Dictionary v4.0, 2024-05-15 — https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov/assets/ETP_Data_Dictionary.pdf
Other providers in California: the California provider index.