by our College Data Analytics Team
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Carl Sandburg College was awarded 232 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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Carl Sandburg College landed the #1,366 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 Sandburg College held the #1,649 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Carl Sandburg College also holds the #60 spot on the Best Colleges in Illinois ranking.
Carl Sandburg 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 at Carl Sandburg College is about average at 15 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Carl Sandburg College is 23%. This is lower 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 Carl Sandburg College this rate is 60%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,755 undergraduates at Carl Sandburg College with 692 being full-time and 1,063 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,816 | $2,250 | $4,539 | $6,971 | $7,124 |
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 Sandburg 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 Carl Sandburg College, approximately 10% of students took out student loans averaging $4,266 a year. That adds up to $17,064 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Carl Sandburg College is 9.0%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for Carl Sandburg College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2400 Tom L. Wilson Boulevard, Galesburg, IL 61401 |
| Phone: | 309-344-2518 |
| Website: | www.sandburg.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, 1,274 students took at least one online class at Carl Sandburg College. This is a decrease from the 1,465 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,274 | 601 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,465 | 742 |
| 2018-2019 | 888 | 360 |
| 2017-2018 | 846 | 300 |
| 2016-2017 | 834 | 286 |
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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