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Los Angeles Harbor College was awarded 53 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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LAHC landed the #509 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when LAHC held the #570 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
LAHC is also ranked #86 out of 168 schools in California.
Los Angeles Harbor College has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
The student to faculty ratio at Los Angeles Harbor 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 Harbor College is 29%. 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 Los Angeles Harbor College is 72%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 8,101 undergraduates at LAHC with 1,661 being full-time and 6,440 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11,222 | $11,003 | $13,802 | $15,819 | $16,160 |
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 LAHC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
The student loan default rate at LAHC is 10.5%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for LAHC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington, CA 90744-2397 |
| Phone: | 310-233-4000 |
| Website: | https://www.lahc.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, 6,452 students took at least one online class at Los Angeles Harbor College. This is an increase from the 4,620 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 6,452 | 5,365 |
| 2019-2020 | 4,620 | 2,140 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,291 | 2,361 |
| 2017-2018 | 3,608 | 1,693 |
| 2016-2017 | 3,476 | 1,630 |
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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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