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Glendale Community College was awarded 51 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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College Factual ranked GCC as #1,501 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list.
Out of the 168 colleges in California, GCC is ranked at #144.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Glendale Community College has an open admissions policy. This means that you'll only have to submit basic materials, which may include proof that you completed high school or an equivalent program.
The student to faculty ratio at Glendale Community College is 24 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 Glendale Community College is 32%. This is lower 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 70%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 12,973 undergraduates at GCC with 6,482 being full-time and 6,491 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 GCC, 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 GCC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $3,707 a year. That adds up to $14,828 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at GCC is 3.8%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for GCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1500 N Verdugo Rd, Glendale, CA 91208-2894 |
| Phone: | 818-240-1000 |
| Website: | https://www.glendale.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, 7,447 students took at least one online class at Glendale Community College. This is a decrease from the 7,518 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 7,447 | 2,712 |
| 2019-2020 | 7,518 | 2,101 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,434 | 1,004 |
| 2017-2018 | 4,003 | 954 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,972 | 574 |
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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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