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 Valley College was awarded 63 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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According to College Factual's 2024 analysis, LAVC is ranked #449 out of 2,217 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This is an improvement over the previous year, when LAVC held the #545 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
LAVC also holds the #77 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
Since Los Angeles Valley College has an open admissions policy, being accepted to the school isn't that hard. However, a full basic things - such as a high school diploma or equivalent - may be required. Also, go over your application to make sure it is complete before you submit it.
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 Valley College, this rate is 21 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 Valley College is 32%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 73% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Los Angeles Valley 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 15,957 undergraduates at LAVC with 3,235 being full-time and 12,722 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 LAVC, 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 LAVC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $6,879 a year. That adds up to $27,516 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at LAVC is 8.2%. 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 LAVC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5800 Fulton Avenue, Valley Glen, CA 91401-4096 |
| Phone: | 818-947-2600 |
| Website: | www.lavc.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, 12,337 students took at least one online class at Los Angeles Valley College. This is an increase from the 8,032 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 12,337 | 10,022 |
| 2019-2020 | 8,032 | 3,303 |
| 2018-2019 | 8,659 | 4,106 |
| 2017-2018 | 7,480 | 3,373 |
| 2016-2017 | 6,156 | 2,599 |
Learn more about online learning at Los Angeles 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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