by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Dyersburg State Community College was awarded 34 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is registered nursing.
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DSCC landed the #1,871 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when DSCC held the #1,953 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
DSCC is also ranked #34 out of 45 schools in Tennessee.
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Dyersburg State Community College has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
The student to faculty ratio at Dyersburg State 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 Dyersburg State Community College is 34%. 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 Dyersburg State Community College this rate is 51%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,650 undergraduates at DSCC with 1,129 being full-time and 1,521 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,008 | $5,813 | $7,858 | $8,236 | $10,332 |
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 DSCC, 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 DSCC, approximately 6% of students took out student loans averaging $3,050 a year. That adds up to $12,200 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at DSCC 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 DSCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1510 Lake Road, Dyersburg, TN 38024-2411 |
| Phone: | 731-286-3200 |
| Website: | www.dscc.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, 1,724 students took at least one online class at Dyersburg State Community College. This is an increase from the 1,468 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,724 | 1,067 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,468 | 752 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,255 | 517 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,299 | 563 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,042 | 409 |
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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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