by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Lee College was awarded 472 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is electromechanical engineering technology.
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Lee College is ranked #89 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 5% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Lee College held the #200 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Lee College also holds the #6 spot on the Best Colleges in Texas ranking.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Lee 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 is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Lee College, this ratio is 15 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Lee College is 53%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a measure of what percentage of first-year, full-time students come back for their sophomore year. The 22% rate at Lee College is a good bit lower than the national rate of 68%. This could be for a number of reasons, such as students transferring after a year because they changed majors.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,487 undergraduates at Lee College with 1,567 being full-time and 5,920 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4,089 | $4,416 | $5,205 | $9,031 | $10,296 |
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 Lee 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 Lee College, approximately 6% of students took out student loans averaging $5,058 a year. That adds up to $20,232 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Lee College is 9.7%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Lee College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 511 S Whiting, Baytown, TX 77520 |
| Phone: | 281-427-5611 |
| Website: | www.lee.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, 2,858 students took at least one online class at Lee College. This is a decrease from the 3,685 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 2,858 | 1,267 |
| 2019-2020 | 3,685 | 3,064 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,857 | 531 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,720 | 435 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,692 | 356 |
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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