by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Delgado Community College was awarded 39 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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Delgado Community College landed the #860 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Delgado Community College held the #978 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 30 colleges in Louisiana, Delgado Community College is ranked at #3.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Delgado 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.
The student to faculty ratio at Delgado Community College is 20 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
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 Delgado Community College is 37%. 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 Delgado Community College this rate is 52%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 13,251 undergraduates at Delgado Community College with 4,792 being full-time and 8,459 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $7,133 | $7,819 | $9,753 | $12,760 | $12,504 |
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 Delgado 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 Delgado Community College, approximately 35% of students took out student loans averaging $5,648 a year. That adds up to $22,592 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Delgado Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 615 City Park Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70119 |
| Phone: | 504-671-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.dcc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 970 | NA |
| Nursing | 278 | NA |
| Accounting | 209 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 133 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 106 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 101 | NA |
| Computer Systems Networking | 87 | NA |
| Vehicle Maintenance & Repair | 86 | NA |
| Real Estate | 75 | NA |
| Hospitality Management | 73 | NA |
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 2022-2023, 8,412 students took at least one online class at Delgado Community College. This is a decrease from the 9,191 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 8,412 | 5,461 |
| 2021-2022 | 9,191 | 6,115 |
| 2020-2021 | 11,628 | 9,840 |
| 2018-2019 | 7,007 | 1,901 |
Learn more about online learning at Delgado Community College.
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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