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.
Hillsborough Community College was awarded 87 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is allied health professions.
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HCC landed the #247 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when HCC held the #765 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
HCC also holds the #11 spot on the Best Colleges in Florida ranking.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough Community College is 23 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.
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 Hillsborough Community College is 38%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 19,532 undergraduates at HCC with 8,903 being full-time and 10,629 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 HCC, 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 HCC, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $4,986 a year. That adds up to $19,944 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for HCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 39 Columbia Drive, Tampa, FL 33606-3584 |
| Phone: | 813-253-7000 |
| Website: | https://www.hccfl.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 3,128 | NA |
| Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 1,283 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 500 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 379 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 328 | NA |
| Nursing | 227 | NA |
| Accounting | 129 | NA |
| Information Technology | 114 | NA |
| Fire Protection | 86 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 85 | NA |
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 2022-2023, 14,292 students took at least one online class at Hillsborough Community College. This is a decrease from the 14,985 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 14,292 | 8,543 |
| 2021-2022 | 14,985 | 9,557 |
| 2020-2021 | 17,264 | 13,731 |
| 2018-2019 | 9,887 | 4,306 |
Learn more about online learning at Hillsborough Community College.
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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