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Coastline Community College was awarded 203 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business administration & management.
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Coastline Community College is ranked #508 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list.
Coastline Community College also holds the #85 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Coastline Community 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 Coastline Community College, the student to faculty ratio is 24 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.
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 Coastline Community College is 18%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a measure of what percentage of first-year, full-time students come back for their sophomore year. The 46% rate at Coastline Community College is a good bit lower than the national rate of 68%. This could be for a number of reasons, such as students transferring after a year because they changed majors.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 8,826 undergraduates at Coastline Community College with 805 being full-time and 8,021 being part-time.
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 Coastline 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 Coastline Community College, approximately 3% of students took out student loans averaging $4,537 a year. That adds up to $18,148 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Coastline Community College is 24.6%. Watch out! This is significantly higher than the national default rate of 10.1%, which means you could have trouble paying back your student loans if you take any out.
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Contact details for Coastline Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 11460 Warner Ave., Fountain Valley, CA 92708-2597 |
| Phone: | 714-546-7600 |
| Website: | www.coastline.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, 6,576 students took at least one online class at Coastline Community College. This is a decrease from the 8,756 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 6,576 | 6,501 |
| 2019-2020 | 8,756 | 8,691 |
| 2018-2019 | 9,565 | 8,818 |
| 2017-2018 | 9,702 | 8,804 |
| 2016-2017 | 9,662 | 8,753 |
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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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