by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Blinn College was awarded 60 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & corrections.
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Blinn College is ranked #877 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 Blinn College held the #1,022 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 115 colleges in Texas, Blinn College is ranked at #44.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Blinn College since the school has an open admissions policy. Still, be sure to submit any requested materials and that your application is completed in full.
The student to faculty ratio at Blinn College is 26 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Blinn College is 55%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Blinn College this rate is 54%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 18,220 undergraduates at Blinn College with 8,733 being full-time and 9,487 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,239 | $14,125 | $15,663 | $17,329 | $17,617 |
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 Blinn College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Blinn College, approximately 39% of students took out student loans averaging $3,006 a year. That adds up to $12,024 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Blinn College is 12.0%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for Blinn College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 902 College Ave, Brenham, TX 77833-4098 |
| Phone: | 979-830-4000 |
| Website: | www.blinn.edu/ |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2020-2021, 8,482 students took at least one online class at Blinn College. This is a decrease from the 12,839 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 8,482 | 3,834 |
| 2019-2020 | 12,839 | 4,007 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,479 | 2,136 |
| 2017-2018 | 5,224 | 1,987 |
| 2016-2017 | 4,692 | 1,663 |
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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