College of the Desert is a large public associates college located in Palm Desert, CA with a student to faculty ratio of 29 to 1. It has a total of 14,374 full-time undergraduate students. College of the Desert offers 105 different majors. With an annual tuition of $1,297 for students from California and $8,577 for those from out-of-state, College of the Desert is pretty low-priced. 13.05% of students graduate beginning the next stage of their lives, working. Open graduating, alumni go on to earn near $30,600 per year, which is 26% under the national median.