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.
El Paso Community College was awarded 419 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & corrections.
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El Paso Community College landed the #1,285 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 El Paso Community College held the #1,434 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 115 colleges in Texas, El Paso Community College is ranked at #70.
If you are worried about getting into El Paso 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 El Paso Community College, this rate is 24 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
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 El Paso Community College is 55%. This is higher 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 El Paso Community College this rate is 60%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 26,034 undergraduates at El Paso Community College with 7,623 being full-time and 18,411 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,890 | $3,761 | $6,232 | $9,494 | $10,868 |
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 El Paso 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 El Paso Community College, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $3,719 a year. That adds up to $14,876 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at El Paso Community College is 10.1%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for El Paso Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9050 Viscount Blvd, El Paso, TX 79925-6507 |
| Phone: | 915-831-2000 |
| Website: | www.epcc.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, 14,415 students took at least one online class at El Paso Community College. This is a decrease from the 25,271 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 14,415 | 7,277 |
| 2019-2020 | 25,271 | 23,907 |
| 2018-2019 | 8,483 | 2,741 |
| 2017-2018 | 7,651 | 2,245 |
| 2016-2017 | 7,672 | 2,470 |
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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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