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Southern California University of Health Sciences

Doctor of Chiropractic program at Whittier, California and Tempe, Arizona. Every figure below is the college's own, with the document it came from and the date that document was checked.

Absence in what we checked is not absence at the college.Checked 2026-09-17: the homepage, the cost and affordability page in its bare form and at ?content=fixed_tuition and ?content=costs, the academic catalogs tab, both D.C. programme pages, both D.C. tuition pages, the D.C. accreditation page, the university outcomes tab, the catalog index at catoid=34, and both robots.txt files. The catalog's Tuition and Fees page returned HTTP 202 with zero bytes and could not be read.
How to read this page. Every field carries one of three states and they are never collapsed to two: published — the document exists and answers; not-published — the document exists and does not answer; unverified — the document exists and could not be read, or was not reached. Text inside double quotation marks is the college’s own wording, reproduced as published including any typographical error; text outside them is ours. Nothing on this page is added up. Where the college publishes components and no total, the components are listed and the missing total is stated. Nothing here compares this college with any other.

Accreditation

Institutional accreditation
published What the institution publishes about its institutional accreditation, in its own words.

https://www.scuhs.edu/about-scu/?content=accreditation · checked 2026-09-18

Southern California University of Health Sciences is accredited by WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), 1080 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 500, Alameda, CA 94501. Phone: (510) 748-9001.

Southern California University of Health Sciences has met the qualifications for exemption from regulation under the Act, pursuant to California Education Code (CEC) Section 94874(i): An institution that is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, or the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

The Doctor of Chiropractic program of the Southern California University of Health Sciences Los Angeles College of Chiropractic is approved by the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

California Chamber of Commerc

Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC)

Accreditation action, as the CCE announces it
published The Council on Chiropractic Education’s announcement dated August 4, 2026 (Council meeting July 10-11, 2026) states: The following are final accreditation actions taken by the Council at its July 2026 Meeting: It lists Southern California University of Health Sciences – Los Angeles College of Chiropractic with the action Continued: Following the progress review meeting, the Council deliberated and reached consensus to continue accreditation of the SCUHS-LACC doctor of chiropractic degree program. https://www.cce-usa.org/uploads/1/0/6/5/106500339/2026-08-04_accreditation_actions_announcement.pdf · checked 2026-10-05 No later announcement listed on CCE’s news pages names this program.
Tempe, Arizona. unverified The block above prints one address, in Whittier, California. No announcement listed on CCE's news pages names a site in Tempe.
What this accreditation means for licensure in the United States
published What the institution states its accreditation means for licensure in the United States.

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/accreditation · checked 2026-09-18

In compliance with 34 CFR 668.43, the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (LACC) at SCU provides information pertaining to professional licensure for the Doctor of Chiropractic program.

Students should refer to the information below and contact the appropriate licensing board to ensure they will meet the licensure requirements in the state(s) in which they intend to practice upon graduation.

LACC’s Doctor of Chiropractic program meets the educational requirements for licensure in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Some states have requirements in addition to educational requirements.

Neither acceptance for admission into the program nor the subsequent earning of a Doctor of Chiropractic degree guarantees that a state or foreign country will grant a graduate a license to practice chiropractic.

Each state and foreign country, through its legislative and administrative process, defines the standards of competency and scope of practice of chiropractic within its jurisdiction.

The following states require students to have a bachelor’s degree, in addition to a D.C. degree, to obtain a license:

In states above indicated with an asterisk (*) students must have completed a bachelor’s degree prior to matriculating into the D.C. program.

All international students are strongly encouraged to check the credentialing requirements in the country where they intend to practice.

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic-phoenix-metro/?content=accreditation · checked 2026-09-18

In compliance with 34 CFR 668.43, the College of Chiropractic Education at SCU provides information pertaining to professional licensure for the Doctor of Chiropractic program.

The Doctor of Chiropractic program meets the educational requirements for licensure in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The Doctor of Chiropractic Program is also approved by the Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/admissions · checked 2026-09-18

Chiropractic, like medicine and dentistry, is a self-regulating profession.

other foreign jurisdictions.

https://www.scuhs.edu/academics/doctor-of-chiropractic/ · checked 2026-09-18

Accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education and recognized by the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners

The licensure pages for where these campuses are: Whittier, California — California licensure →; Tempe, Arizona — Arizona licensure →. Studying in a state is not the same as intending to practice there; read the page for wherever you intend to end up, and confirm with the licensing board there. The licensure hub lists every state documented so far.

Campus

Whittier, California

published The cost page publishes the address 16200 Amber Valley Dr. Whittier, CA 90604. The college brands this site Doctor of Chiropractic – Los Angeles Metro.

Tempe, Arizona

published The cost page publishes the address 2164 E Broadway Rd, Tempe, AZ 85282. The college brands this site Doctor of Chiropractic – Phoenix Metro.
Cost figures that differ by campus or living arrangement
published

By LIVING ARRANGEMENT, in a two-column annual COA table published on both programme pages: Estimated Annual Cost With Parent/Relative against Estimated Annual Cost Off-Campus. The only row that differs is Living Expenses.

BY CAMPUS, THE PUBLISHED FIGURES DO NOT DIFFER AT ALL - and the prose says they should. The Los Angeles page reads ...indirect costs associated with living and studying in California. and the Phoenix page reads ...indirect costs associated with living and studying in Arizona. The two tables beneath those sentences carry IDENTICAL figures, cell for cell, including the same Living Expenses, Transportation and Personal Expenses. Recorded as published; no inference is drawn about which is right.

Estimated Annual Cost of Attendance (COA), identical on both campus pages. Columns: With Parent/Relative

Off-Campus. Tuition $52,380

$52,380. University Fees2 $1,227

$1,227. Books, course materials, supplies, and equipment $2,301

$2,301. Living Expenses –

$32,748. Transportation $2,208

$2,208. Personal Expenses $7,608

$7,608. Loan Fees3 $1,245

$1,245. Total Estimated Annual COA $66,969

$99,717.

The en dash in the With Parent/Relative Living Expenses cell is SCU's own marker, published as –, and is reproduced rather than read as a zero.

Both totals are SCU's own published cells; the difference between them is not computed here. The tables are ANNUAL, and SCU states the year's shape: SCU's Doctor of Chiropractic program runs 3 terms per academic year.

What it costs, as the college publishes it

Cost of attendance

Tuition for the whole program. published $139,680

Cost of attendance for the whole program. not-published The document checked carries no figure of this kind for this program.

Annual tuition. published $52,380 | Published as the "Tuition" row of the Estimated Annual Cost of Attendance (COA) table, "$52,380" in both the With Parent/Relative and Off-Campus columns, on both campus pages. SCU states the span: SCU’s DC program runs 3 terms per academic year; the “annual” COA reflects three terms.

How the figures are shown. published

EVERY TERM OF EVERY TRACK, with published totals. Los Angeles publishes two tracks: Doctor of Chiropractic 8 Terms, 202 credits (Tuition $17,460 per term) and Doctor of Chiropractic 10 Terms, 202 credits (Tuition $13,968 per term). Phoenix publishes Doctor of Chiropractic Accelerated 8 Terms, 202 credits at $17,460. Fees are $409 per term throughout; Medical Equipment $1,275 and EXXAT Fees $263 fall in term 1; Petition to Graduate Fee $225 falls in the final term.

Each table ends in a published Totals row, and the annual COA table is published separately alongside. So SCU publishes per-term, per-programme AND per-year figures for the same programme.

TWO DATE FORMATS on one page: 2026-2027 academic year and 2026/2027 academic year, both present on the Los Angeles page.

Is a prior year shown beside the current one?

No. "2025-2026", "2024-2025" and "2025/2026" occur zero times on the programme tuition page.

Qualifier attached to the figures. published

DIRECT ABOUT ITS OWN WEBSITE: Tuition rates are subject to change and may not be reflected on this website or other SCU materials. Please contact us for the most updated information. The second clause is a figure-status qualifier rather than a future-change clause - it tells a reader the number in front of them may already be wrong. Location: beneath the D.C. tuition tables on both campus pages.

Required costs beside tuition

Are board or licensure examination fees inside the published cost of attendance? published No. The board fee SCU publishes with a figure is not inside the cost of attendance: it is in the * footnote of the programme tuition table and is put outside that table's totals by the words can also expect to pay. Ruled 2026-09-17 under Q10.

Mechanism recorded: noted outside budget

THE FEE, WITH ITS FIGURE, AS PUBLISHED IN THE TABLE'S * FOOTNOTE. Los Angeles: * DC Los Angeles students can also expect to pay $72 per student/preceptor or student/clinical rotation relationship to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners between terms 3 and 10.

Phoenix carries TWO such sentences, naming two states' boards, two amounts and two term ranges: * DC Phoenix students can also expect to pay $725 per student/preceptor or student/clinical rotation relationship to the Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners if/when required for their clinical experiences (terms 3-8). AND, lower on the same page: DC students can also expect to pay $72 per student/preceptor relationship to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners between terms 3 and 10. Both reproduced as published; which governs for an Arizona student is a question for the college and is NOT resolved here.

WHY THE MECHANISM IS noted outside budget: the fee is named, priced and tied to specific terms, and the college's own wording places it outside what the table totals. It is disclosed and not counted.

WHAT THE COST OF ATTENDANCE ITSELF CARRIES, recorded so the two are not confused: the Cost to Attend SCU page lists, under Indirect Costs (Not Billed by SCU), the item Licensure or certification costs (for eligible programs). That is a CATEGORY WITH NO FIGURE, on a page that publishes no dollar amount anywhere - tested. So SCU names a licensure category in its budget without pricing it, and prices a board fee in a footnote outside its budget. Both facts stand.

The program’s own rate table. published Recorded as: no

Mechanism recorded for that table: none shown

The programme tuition tables carry no board or licensure row. Their columns are Term / Tuition* / Fees** / Medical Equipment / EXXAT Fees / Petition to Graduate Fee / Total Term Cost***, and Licensing Board, "Board Fee" and "NBCE fee" occur zero times on the page - tested.

BUT A STATE-BOARD FEE IS PUBLISHED, WITH A FIGURE, IN THE TABLE'S OWN * FOOTNOTE, and it is excluded from the totals by the words can also expect to pay. Los Angeles: * DC Los Angeles students can also expect to pay $72 per student/preceptor or student/clinical rotation relationship to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners between terms 3 and 10.

THE PHOENIX PAGE CARRIES TWO SUCH SENTENCES, naming two different states' boards, two different amounts and two different term ranges. * DC Phoenix students can also expect to pay $725 per student/preceptor or student/clinical rotation relationship to the Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners if/when required for their clinical experiences (terms 3-8). AND, lower on the same page: DC students can also expect to pay $72 per student/preceptor relationship to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners between terms 3 and 10. Both are reproduced as published. Which governs for an Arizona student is a question for the college and is NOT resolved here.

Coded "none shown" because the TABLE shows none. A fee disclosed by the table's footnote marker but excluded from the table's totals has no word in the Q6 vocabulary; logged as Q10 rather than forced into one.

Tuition adjustment notice
published

Published on the programme tuition pages, in the table footnotes, and frank about the site itself: Tuition rates are subject to change and may not be reflected on this website or other SCU materials. Please contact us for the most updated information.

A second clause covers fees: Program fees listed are for the 2026/2027 academic year and are subject to change.

A third, on the Cost to Attend SCU page, covers the budget components: COA components are reviewed periodically and may be updated to reflect changes in costs.

The first tells a reader that the published figures may already be out of date on the page they are reading. Recorded as SCU publishes it.

Program and entry

Program length and format
published Published program length and format, in every form the institution publishes it.

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/faqs · checked 2026-09-18

The Standard Doctor of Chiropractic program typically takes 10 terms (approximately 3 years and 4 months) to complete on a full-time basis. The Accelerated Doctor of Chiropractic program typically takes 8 terms (approximately 2 years and 8 months) to complete on a full-time basis. Each program format is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education and clinical training required to become competent chiropractic healthcare providers.

Applications are specific to the location

complete two applications.

Can I transfer between the Los Angeles and Phoenix locations?

The program offers three concentration options – Sports Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Women’s Health – allowing you to deepen your knowledge in focused areas while completing the core DC curriculum.

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/accreditation · checked 2026-09-18

Normal Length of Program: 10 Trimesters

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/program-details · checked 2026-09-18

Program Format – High Residency

Accelerated (8 Terms) | Standard (10 Terms)

The LA program is delivered in a high-residency format designed for students who benefit from consistent, in-person engagement. During the didactic phase, students attend on-campus classes approximately 2–5 days per week, combining live lectures with hands-on laboratory instruction. In the final two terms, students transition to full-time clinical education, applying their knowledge in real-world settings under faculty supervision. Select courses may be offered in blended or online formats to support flexibility, while maintaining a primarily on-campus learning experience.

SCU offers an embedded bachelor’s degree option for students pursuing the Doctor of Chiropractic (DC). This option allows students who have not yet completed a bachelor’s degree to earn a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences (BSHS) while completing the DC program. The curriculum is designed so that many courses count toward both degrees, enabling students to complete their bachelor’s and doctoral requirements within the same timeline.

https://www.scuhs.edu/academics/doctor-of-chiropractic/ · checked 2026-09-18

Accelerated 8-Term Format: full-time, daytime, primarily on-ground (Complete in 2 years and 8 months, coming to campus 3-4 days per week)

Standard 10-Term Format: full-time, daytime, primarily on-ground (Complete in 3 years and 4 months, coming to campus 3-4 days per week)

Spring: January 4th, 2027

Fall: September 7th, 2027

Choice of three concentrations: Sports Medicine, Women’s Health & Pediatrics, and Functional Medicine.

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic-phoenix-metro/ · checked 2026-09-18

Accelerated 8-Term Format: full-time, daytime, low-residency (Complete in 2 years and 8 months, coming to campus just 3 times per term for 7-10 days at a time)

https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/admissions · checked 2026-09-18

SCU admits students on a rolling basis.

Prerequisites
published What the program publishes about entry, route by route, in its own words.

Statements not tied to one route

Route 1 — Graduate Entry Pathway

    Route 2 — Advanced Entry Pathway

      Route 3 — Track 1: The Bachelor’s Degree Pathway

      Route 4 — Track 2: The 3.00 GPA Pathway Without a Bachelor’s Degree

      • 6 credits* in Anatomy & Physiology and Chemistry with a grade of C or higher taken within the last seven years. (above)
      • Under applicants must meet one of the following pathways: A minimum of 90 credits (135 quarter credits) of college-level coursework with a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher on a 4.00 scale for the 90 semester credits. One of two statements the program publishes on this; the other is marked the same way. https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/admissions · checked 2026-10-03

      Route 5 — Track 3: The 2.75 GPA Pathway Without a Bachelor’s Degree

      • 6 credits* in Anatomy & Physiology and Chemistry with a grade of C or higher taken within the last seven years. (above)
      • Under applicants must meet one of the following pathways: A minimum of 90 credits (135 quarter credits) of college-level coursework that includes the following: One of two statements the program publishes on this; the other is marked the same way. https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/admissions · checked 2026-10-03
      • Under applicants must meet one of the following pathways: A minimum of 90 credits (135 quarter credits) of college-level coursework that includes the following: … A cumulative GPA between 2.75 and 2.99 on a 4.00 scale for the 90 semester credits and a minimum of 24 credits (36 quarter units) of life and/or physical sciences. https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/admissions · checked 2026-10-03

      The program also publishes, on these pages

      Application route
      published
      Application fee
      published
      Deadlines and start terms
      published
      Interview
      published
      International and transfer applicants
      published
      Degree and licensure, as the program words it
      not-published Not found in the pages checked: https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/admissions · checked 2026-10-03; https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic-phoenix-metro/?content=admissions · checked 2026-10-03; https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/faqs · checked 2026-10-03; https://www.scuhs.edu/admissions/application-process/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/international-students/ · checked 2026-10-04.
      NBCE pass rates
      published

      From the domain CCE links, https://www.scuhs.edu/, the Doctor of Chiropractic programme page, then its side-menu item Accreditation, Exams, Licensure at https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/accreditation.

      Destination form: real HTML tables on the page itself, under the headings National Examination Performance, Successful Completion of NBCE Licensing Exams by Six Months After Graduation and Licensing Exam Success Rates. The page states the context: Successful completion of Parts I, II, III, and IV of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE) exams is necessary to become licensed in almost all U.S. licensing jurisdictions. A footnote defines the measure: * NBCE Parts I, II, III, and IV or CCEB Components (written and clinical; A, B, and C) - so the published rate counts a Canadian examination alongside the NBCE.

      No rate is transcribed into this dataset: field 5 asks for the route.

      What the college states its board figure measures, in its own words
      published

      The table reports the number of students who graduated in each of the last four calendar years and the percentage of those who passed all parts of the NBCE licensing exams within six months of graduation. The footnote widens it: * NBCE Parts I, II, III, and IV or CCEB Components (written and clinical; A, B, and C). ALL PARTS, SIX-MONTH window, CANADIAN board counted.

      Student organizations published
      published The student organizations the institution publishes.

      https://www.scuhs.edu/student-services/?content=get_involved · checked 2026-09-18

      SCU offers over 30 student organizations including academic, leadership, professional affiliations, club sports and community service that you can get involved in. Search our diverse groups and find your community.

      Forward Thinking Chiropractic Alliance (FTCA) Club

      International Chiropractic Pediatrics Association (ICPA)

      Student American Black Chiropractor Association (SABCA)

      Student Asian Chiropractic Association (SACA)

      World Congress of Chiropractic Students (WCCS)

      To join or for more information, see the Club Contact Info Spreadsheet.

      Become a leader by joining the Associated Student Body & Student Senators.

      Publishing practice
      published

      What was reachable. reachable; 11 URLs at HTTP 200 on www.scuhs.edu, whose robots.txt is "User-agent: * / Allow: /". | THE COST PAGE IS JAVASCRIPT-GATED. /financial-aid/cost-and-affordability/ returns 200 and carries NO dollar figure at all; its own inline script reads window.location.href = url.origin + url.pathname + ?content=fixed_tuition (https://www.scuhs.edu/financial-aid/cost-and-affordability/, checked 2026-09-21). The cost content lives behind ?content= parameters, and the figures were reached at ?content=costs and on the two programme tuition pages - all paths the site's own markup publishes, none constructed. | THE ACADEMIC CATALOG COULD NOT BE READ. catalog.scuhs.edu/content.php?catoid=34&navoid=3166 - the Tuition and Fees page, linked from the catalog's own index - returned HTTP 202 with ZERO bytes, which is a bot-mitigation response, not a document. That host's robots.txt permits index.php and content.php and sets crawl-delay: 120. No field in this row rests on the catalog; every figure comes from www.scuhs.edu.

      Where the route starts. DAPIP institutions endpoint, WebAddress. Old domain as recorded from the superseded, disallowed source: https://www.scuhs.edu/. Permitted domain: www.scuhs.edu. Hosts match; route stands with the permitted source cited.

      Articulation register published
      unverified Whether the institution publishes an articulation register, and in what form. Ratified as a field on 14 September 2026 and held: the value shape is not written. Until it is, no value may be published for any institution, because a bare yes would not say whether the register is searchable or static or what an entry contains. Nothing here says this institution publishes no register.
      Pre-enrollment practice contact
      not-published Not found in the pages checked: https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/admissions · checked 2026-10-03; https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic-phoenix-metro/?content=admissions · checked 2026-10-03; https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/faqs · checked 2026-10-03; https://www.scuhs.edu/admissions/application-process/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/admissions/?content=overview · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/admissions/transfer-students/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/international-students/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/tuition · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/event/discovery-day/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/admissions/virtual-information-session/ · checked 2026-10-04; https://www.scuhs.edu/about-scu/?content=catalogs · checked 2026-10-04; https://catalog.scuhs.edu/index.php?catoid=34 · checked 2026-10-04.
      What the pages checked do not answer
      Among the fields above, these are marked not-published: Degree and licensure, as the program words it, Pre-enrollment practice contact.

      The full cost-disclosure record

      Every field above is drawn from this college’s row of the cost-disclosure dataset. The full entry for Southern California University of Health Sciences is in the directory, beside the other eighteen accredited programs, and the dataset itself is published at the data page.

      Sources. Southern California University of Health Sciences’s own published pages and documents, each linked in the field it answers and each carrying the date it was checked: https://www.scuhs.edu/financial-aid/cost-and-affordability/?content=costs · https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/tuition · https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic-phoenix-metro/tuition · https://www.scuhs.edu/ · https://www.scuhs.edu/doctoral-degrees/doctor-of-chiropractic/accreditation. Documents were read as bytes; where a document could not be read as bytes that is recorded in the field, and the field states unverified rather than a figure. Fields marked unverified were not established in this pass and are not filled in from anywhere else. Rates are set by the college and are subject to change; check the college’s current page before budgeting, and confirm accreditation with the accrediting council and licensure requirements with the relevant state board rather than with any third party, including us.

      Nothing on this page is a ranking, a recommendation, or a comparison. No school pays to appear here, to change a field, or to have a peer removed. Every program is described in the same fields, including the ones we hold no content about.

      Cite this entry. Southern California University of Health Sciences. In The Kaleidoscope. ChiroTrack. Last verified 5 October 2026. https://kaleidoscope.thechirotrack.com/school-scu.html. Accessed ________.

      Corrections to this entry: 10 October 2026 · 21 September 2026 · 21 September 2026 · If this is your institution: how this entry was sourced, and how to correct it