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Kingsborough Community College was awarded 419 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is substance abuse/addiction counseling.
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KCC is ranked #1,345 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 KCC held the #1,465 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 142 colleges in New York, KCC is ranked at #81.
If you are worried about getting into Kingsborough Community College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At Kingsborough Community College, this rate is 20 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
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 Kingsborough Community College is 44%. This is comparable to 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 Kingsborough Community College this rate is 61%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 15,116 undergraduates at KCC with 6,854 being full-time and 8,262 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,221 | $6,346 | $9,093 | $10,633 | $12,707 |
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 KCC, 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 KCC, approximately 4% of students took out student loans averaging $4,635 a year. That adds up to $18,540 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at KCC is 8.5%. 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 KCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2001 Oriental Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11235 |
| Phone: | 718-368-5000 |
| Website: | www.kbcc.cuny.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, 13,804 students took at least one online class at Kingsborough Community College. This is a decrease from the 14,875 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 13,804 | 10,967 |
| 2019-2020 | 14,875 | 14,059 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,377 | 104 |
| 2017-2018 | 926 | 73 |
| 2016-2017 | 702 | 52 |
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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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