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Georgia Highlands College Data & Information Overview

175 awards Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
10% Student Loan Default Rate
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How Well Is Georgia Highlands College Ranked?

#1,181 Best Colleges in Nation
#27 Best Colleges in GA
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Highest Ranked Major
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2024 Rankings

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.

Georgia Highlands College was awarded 175 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts / sciences & humanities.

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Overall Quality

College Factual ranked GHC as #1,181 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 GHC held the #1,193 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

GHC also holds the #27 spot on the Best Colleges in Georgia ranking.

See all of the rankings for Georgia Highlands College.

Is It Hard to Get Into GHC?

Open Admissions Policy

Acceptance Rate

If you are worried about getting into Georgia Highlands 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.

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Georgia Highlands College Faculty

18 to 1 Student to Faculty
52% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio at Georgia Highlands College is about average at 18 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

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 Georgia Highlands College is 52%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  52 out of 100
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Retention and Graduation Rates at Georgia Highlands College

72% Freshmen Retention

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Georgia Highlands College is 72%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.

Freshmen Retention Rate  72 out of 100
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Georgia Highlands College Undergraduate Student Diversity

2,258 Full-Time Undergraduates
38.6% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
61.6% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,680 undergraduates at GHC with 2,258 being full-time and 3,422 being part-time.

How Much Does Georgia Highlands College Cost?

$6,574 Net Price
12% Take Out Loans
$20,312 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of GHC is $6,574. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for GHC

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$5,004 $5,954 $8,182 $10,938 $11,132

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 GHC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

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 GHC, approximately 12% of students took out student loans averaging $5,078 a year. That adds up to $20,312 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at GHC is 10.2%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.

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How Much Money Do GHC Graduates Make?

$38,838 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
The pay for some majors is higher than others, but on average, students who graduate with a bachelor's degree from GHC make about $38,838 a year during their first few years of employment after graduation. This is in the same neighborhood of the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year. However, certain majors may produce higher-paying graduates.

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See which majors at Georgia Highlands College make the most money.

Location of Georgia Highlands College

Georgia State
2,258 Full-Time Undergraduates
Rural Campus Setting
Located in Rome, Georgia, Georgia Highlands College is a public institution. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of GHC.

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Contact details for GHC are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 3175 Cedartown Highway, S.E., Rome, GA 30161-3897
Phone: 800-332-2406
Website: www.highlands.edu/

Georgia Highlands College Majors

7 Majors With Completions
1,011 Undergraduate Degrees
Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 32 NA
Business Administration & Management 31 NA
Dental Support Services 27 $56,252
Nursing 23 $62,911
Criminal Justice & Corrections 9 NA
Mental & Social Health Services 0 NA
Liberal Arts General Studies 0 NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Georgia Highlands College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at GHC

69% Take At Least One Class Online
43% Take All Classes Online

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, 3,630 students took at least one online class at Georgia Highlands College. This is a decrease from the 4,869 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2020-2021 3,630 2,230
2019-2020 4,869 2,797
2018-2019 2,851 1,032
2017-2018 2,544 808
2016-2017 2,423 753

Learn more about online learning at Georgia Highlands College.

Notes and References

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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