by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Glendale Community College was awarded 8 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is fire protection.
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Glendale Community College landed the #1,085 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 Glendale Community College held the #1,585 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Glendale Community College also holds the #18 spot on the Best Colleges in Arizona ranking.
Since Glendale Community College has an open admissions policy, being accepted to the school isn't that hard. However, a full basic things - such as a high school diploma or equivalent - may be required. Also, go over your application to make sure it is complete before you submit it.
With a student to faculty ratio of 15 to 1, Glendale Community College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Glendale Community College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
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 Glendale Community College is 63%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 14,374 undergraduates at Glendale Community College with 4,133 being full-time and 10,241 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 Glendale Community College, 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 Glendale Community College, approximately 7% of students took out student loans averaging $3,478 a year. That adds up to $13,912 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Glendale Community College is 12.1%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for Glendale Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 6000 W Olive Ave, Glendale, AZ 85302 |
| Phone: | 623-845-3000 |
| Website: | www.gccaz.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, 8,246 students took at least one online class at Glendale Community College. This is a decrease from the 10,666 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 8,246 | 3,624 |
| 2019-2020 | 10,666 | 5,349 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,021 | 1,569 |
| 2017-2018 | 4,430 | 1,321 |
| 2016-2017 | 4,573 | 1,372 |
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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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