by our College Data Analytics Team
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Golden West College was awarded 449 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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College Factual ranked Golden West College as #189 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Golden West College held the #317 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Golden West College also holds the #31 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Golden West 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.
At Golden West College, the student to faculty ratio is 26 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
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 Golden West College is 30%. 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 Golden West College is 67%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 11,396 undergraduates at Golden West College with 3,505 being full-time and 7,891 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,094 | $4,414 | $6,739 | $8,294 | $6,612 |
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 Golden West 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 Golden West College, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $7,067 a year. That adds up to $28,268 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Golden West College is 13.4%. 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 Golden West College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 15744 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach, CA 92647-2710 |
| Phone: | 714-892-7711 |
| Website: | www.goldenwestcollege.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, 8,804 students took at least one online class at Golden West College. This is an increase from the 8,777 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 8,804 | 5,846 |
| 2019-2020 | 8,777 | 4,323 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,972 | 1,800 |
| 2017-2018 | 4,419 | 1,610 |
| 2016-2017 | 4,128 | 1,462 |
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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