by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Imperial Valley College was awarded 178 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is biological & physical sciences.
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According to College Factual's 2024 analysis, IVC is ranked #1,588 out of 2,217 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This is an improvement over the previous year, when IVC held the #1,625 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 168 colleges in California, IVC is ranked at #150.
If you are worried about getting into Imperial Valley 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.
The student to faculty ratio at Imperial Valley College is 32 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 Imperial Valley College is 54%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Imperial Valley College has a freshmen retention rate of 77%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,123 undergraduates at IVC with 3,390 being full-time and 3,733 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 IVC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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Get more details about the location of Imperial Valley College.
Contact details for IVC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 380 E. Aten Road, Imperial, CA 92251-0158 |
| Phone: | 760-352-8320 |
| Website: | www.imperial.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, 6,469 students took at least one online class at Imperial Valley College. This is an increase from the 2,253 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 6,469 | 3,780 |
| 2019-2020 | 2,253 | 150 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,279 | 281 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,960 | 244 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,514 | 183 |
Learn more about online learning at Imperial Valley 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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