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Los Angeles City College was awarded 89 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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Los Angeles City College is ranked #641 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Los Angeles City College held the #800 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 168 colleges in California, Los Angeles City College is ranked at #95.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Los Angeles City 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 Los Angeles City College is 25 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 Los Angeles City College is 35%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Los Angeles City College this rate is 56%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 14,800 undergraduates at Los Angeles City College with 3,469 being full-time and 11,331 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 Los Angeles City 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 Los Angeles City College, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $9,935 a year. That adds up to $39,740 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Los Angeles City College is 8.7%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for Los Angeles City College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 855 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029 |
| Phone: | 323-953-4000 |
| Website: | www.lacitycollege.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, 12,138 students took at least one online class at Los Angeles City College. This is an increase from the 6,403 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 12,138 | 10,771 |
| 2019-2020 | 6,403 | 3,005 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,684 | 2,640 |
| 2017-2018 | 4,521 | 2,546 |
| 2016-2017 | 3,786 | 2,126 |
Learn more about online learning at Los Angeles City 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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