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.
Central Ohio Technical College was awarded 53 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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COTC landed the #1,312 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 COTC held the #1,671 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
COTC is also ranked #52 out of 96 schools in Ohio.
Since Central Ohio Technical College has an open admissions policy, being accepted to the school isn't that hard. However, a full basic things - such as a high school diploma or equivalent - may be required. Also, go over your application to make sure it is complete before you submit it.
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 Central Ohio Technical College, this ratio is 14 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Central Ohio Technical College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 46% tells us that most first-year, full-time students don't stick around for a second year at Central Ohio Technical College. Students may have a variety of reasons for this, such as only intending to attend a school for one year while they brush up on certain subjects.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,029 undergraduates at COTC with 598 being full-time and 2,431 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,759 | $8,958 | $10,486 | $12,591 | $12,853 |
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 COTC, 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 COTC, approximately 33% of students took out student loans averaging $4,343 a year. That adds up to $17,372 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at COTC is 8.1%. 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 COTC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1179 University Drive, Newark, OH 43055-1767 |
| Phone: | 740-366-1351 |
| Website: | www.cotc.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, 1,019 students took at least one online class at Central Ohio Technical College. This is a decrease from the 1,310 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,019 | 346 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,310 | 438 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,163 | 353 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,125 | 335 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,186 | 357 |
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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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