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CET, Santa Maria was not ranked in College Factual's 2025 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
If you are worried about getting into CET, Santa Maria, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
With a student to faculty ratio of 18 to 1, CET, Santa Maria is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
CET, Santa Maria has a freshmen retention rate of 80%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 132 full-time undergraduates at CET, Santa Maria.
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of CET, Santa Maria, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At CET, Santa Maria, approximately 18% of students took out student loans averaging $6,248 a year. That adds up to $24,992 over four years for those students.

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Contact details for CET, Santa Maria are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 509 W Morrison Ave, Santa Maria, CA 93458 |
| Phone: | 408-287-7924 |
| Website: | https://www.cetweb.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 53 | NA |
| Building Management & Inspection | 15 | NA |
| Business Support & Assistant Services | 7 | NA |
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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