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Douglas Education Center was awarded 7 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is personal & culinary services.
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Douglas Education Center was not ranked in College Factual's Best Overall Colleges report this year. This may be because not enough data was available.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Douglas Education Center 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 is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at Douglas Education Center it is much better at 12 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
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 Douglas Education Center is 56%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Douglas Education Center has a freshmen retention rate of 80%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 207 undergraduates at Douglas Education Center with 202 being full-time and 5 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $22,148 | $23,228 | $26,070 | $29,408 | $30,718 |
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 Douglas Education Center, 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 Douglas Education Center, approximately 74% of students took out student loans averaging $7,943 a year. That adds up to $31,772 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Douglas Education Center is 9.7%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Douglas Education Center are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 130 7Th St, Monessen, PA 15062 |
| Phone: | 724-684-3684 |
| Website: | www.dec.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, 120 students took at least one online class at Douglas Education Center. This is a decrease from the 130 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 120 | 0 |
| 2019-2020 | 130 | 0 |
| 2018-2019 | 144 | 0 |
| 2017-2018 | 159 | 0 |
| 2016-2017 | 184 | 0 |
Learn more about online learning at Douglas Education Center.
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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