by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Carl Albert State College was awarded 37 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business administration & management.
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Carl Albert State College landed the #1,917 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Carl Albert State College held the #2,074 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Carl Albert State College is also ranked #28 out of 32 schools in Oklahoma.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Carl Albert State 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.
At Carl Albert State College, the student to faculty ratio is 21 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
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 Carl Albert State College is 55%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 74% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Carl Albert State College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,922 undergraduates at Carl Albert State College with 993 being full-time and 929 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4,812 | $4,166 | $6,773 | $9,187 | $11,438 |
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 Carl Albert State 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 Carl Albert State College, approximately 14% of students took out student loans averaging $4,354 a year. That adds up to $17,416 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Carl Albert State College is 10.4%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Carl Albert State College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1507 S Mckenna, Poteau, OK 74953-5208 |
| Phone: | 918-647-1200 |
| Website: | www.carlalbert.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, 1,297 students took at least one online class at Carl Albert State College. This is an increase from the 280 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,297 | 723 |
| 2019-2020 | 280 | 217 |
| 2018-2019 | 273 | 201 |
| 2017-2018 | 111 | 47 |
| 2016-2017 | 117 | 42 |
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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.
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