by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Barton County Community College was awarded 167 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health/medical prep programs.
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Barton Community College is ranked #986 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Barton Community College held the #1,279 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Barton Community College also holds the #14 spot on the Best Colleges in Kansas ranking.
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Barton County Community College has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Barton County Community College, this ratio is 18 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Barton County Community College is 96%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Barton County Community College is 69%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,094 undergraduates at Barton Community College with 1,398 being full-time and 2,696 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $7,303 | $8,830 | $9,566 | $12,488 | $12,844 |
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 Barton Community College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Barton Community College, approximately 16% of students took out student loans averaging $5,335 a year. That adds up to $21,340 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Barton Community College is 10.4%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Barton Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 245 Ne 30Th Road, Great Bend, KS 67530 |
| Phone: | 620-792-2701 |
| Website: | www.bartonccc.edu/ |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 2,582 students took at least one online class at Barton County Community College. This is a decrease from the 3,175 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 2,582 | 1,785 |
| 2019-2020 | 3,175 | 2,364 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,303 | 2,085 |
| 2017-2018 | 2,153 | 1,987 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,881 | 1,678 |
Learn more about online learning at Barton County Community College.
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.
References
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