Bakersfield College

Enrollment

Of 30,746 students enrolled in fall 2024, 30,746 were undergraduates and 0 graduate students. 25% studied exclusively online, students who don't need a bed near campus. Headcount rose by 336 from fall 2023 (+1.1%).

Housing the college controls

The school told IPEDS it offers no institutionally controlled housing for 2024-25. Demand here is mostly from students who rent near campus or commute.

What students pay

No housing charge was reported. The financial aid office budgets $24,192 a year for food and housing off campus away from family.

Those are the college's own figures. Private by-the-bed rents near campus can sit well above or below them, so check current asking rents before you underwrite a project.

How lenders read a campus like this

Most students here aren't full-time, so the campus misses the "majority full-time" test that comes with the 10,000-student minimum in Fannie Mae's Multifamily Guide for Dedicated Student Housing (Part III, Chapter 1, section 103.01). Freddie Mac has no stated enrollment floor, but its own product summary says most of its student housing loans are at schools with 15,000 or more students. Banks, debt funds and conventional multifamily programs are the likelier lenders here.

To size a specific property, use the student housing loan sizer. It works by the bed and shows which constraint sets the loan.

Among the 71 California campuses on this site, Bakersfield College ranks number 28 by full-time students beyond college housing. See the California table.

Other campuses in Bakersfield

• California State University-Bakersfield: 8,333 full-time, 502 beds