by our College Data Analytics TeamIn its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Los Angeles Pierce College was awarded 58 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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Pierce College landed the #392 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 Pierce College held the #552 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Pierce College is also ranked #67 out of 168 schools in California.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Los Angeles Pierce 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 as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At Los Angeles Pierce College, this rate is 24 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Los Angeles Pierce College is 37%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 74% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Los Angeles Pierce College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 17,521 undergraduates at Pierce College with 4,697 being full-time and 12,824 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 Pierce College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Pierce College, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $5,901 a year. That adds up to $23,604 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Pierce College is 7.9%. 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 Pierce College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 6201 Winnetka Ave, Woodland Hills, CA 91371-0002 |
| Phone: | 818-719-6401 |
| Website: | www.lapc.edu/ |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2020-2021, 13,970 students took at least one online class at Los Angeles Pierce College. This is an increase from the 6,781 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 13,970 | 11,660 |
| 2019-2020 | 6,781 | 2,012 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,917 | 2,453 |
| 2017-2018 | 4,710 | 1,891 |
| 2016-2017 | 3,234 | 1,171 |
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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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