Is America Evangelical University Worth It?

I don't have enough program-level data to write a full ROI analysis, but here's what the available numbers support.

America Evangelical University in Gardena, California is a small private-nonprofit school where the financial picture is hard to read because the outcome data that matters most is missing. There are no bachelor-level program salary figures here, so there's no way to tell you which majors pay off and which don't. That absence is itself a risk: you're committing to a net price near $24,000 a year without published earnings to check it against.

The retention rate is the number that should give you pause. Two of every three students come back for a second year, which means roughly a third do not. A school reporting a 100% graduation rate alongside 67% retention is a small institution where a handful of students swing the percentages, so treat both figures as noise until you see the class sizes behind them.

The net price tiers are close together, and that's the odd part. If your family earns under $30,000, you'd pay about $22,750. if you earn $30,000 to $48,000, you'd pay more, around $25,043. Aid usually cuts deeper for lower incomes, so a lower-income family paying less than a slightly higher one here is worth questioning directly with the financial aid office before you enroll.

This school is a reasonable financial fit only if the faith-based mission is the reason you're going and you've confirmed your specific program's job placement in person. If you're choosing on return alone, look elsewhere: without earnings data, $24,000 a year is a bet you can't price.