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.
GateWay Community College was awarded 189 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is allied health professions.
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College Factual ranked GateWay Community College as #301 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when GateWay Community College held the #692 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 26 colleges in Arizona, GateWay Community College is ranked at #7.
GateWay 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 GateWay Community College is an impressive 11 to 1. That's quite good when you compare it to the national average of 15 to 1. This is a good sign that students at the school will have more opportunities for one-on-one interactions with their professors.
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 GateWay Community College is 100%. 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 GateWay Community College this rate is 61%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,670 undergraduates at GateWay Community College with 1,018 being full-time and 3,652 being part-time.
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 GateWay 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 GateWay Community College, approximately 13% of students took out student loans averaging $3,207 a year. That adds up to $12,828 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at GateWay Community College is 10.2%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for GateWay Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 108 N. 40Th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034 |
| Phone: | 602-392-5000 |
| Website: | www.gatewaycc.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, 2,646 students took at least one online class at GateWay Community College. This is a decrease from the 3,417 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 2,646 | 1,463 |
| 2019-2020 | 3,417 | 1,653 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,158 | 381 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,096 | 350 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,117 | 336 |
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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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