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 453 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is accounting technology/technician and bookkeeping.
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College Factual ranked Delgado Community College as #978 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Delgado Community College held the #1,636 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Delgado Community College is also ranked #5 out of 29 schools in Louisiana.
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 42%. 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 49% rate at Delgado 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 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 + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $7,786 | $8,313 | $10,688 | $11,869 | $12,781 |
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 38% of students took out student loans averaging $6,082 a year. That adds up to $24,328 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Delgado Community College is 16.3%. 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 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/ |
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, 9,191 students took at least one online class at Delgado Community College. This is a decrease from the 11,628 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 9,191 | 6,115 |
| 2019-2020 | 11,628 | 9,840 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,512 | 2,279 |
| 2017-2018 | 7,007 | 1,901 |
| 2016-2017 | 4,997 | 1,941 |
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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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