by our College Data Analytics Team
In 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.
Mesa Community College was awarded 144 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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College Factual ranked Mesa Community College as #472 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Mesa Community College held the #1,021 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 26 colleges in Arizona, Mesa Community College is ranked at #9.
If you are worried about getting into Mesa Community College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
With a student to faculty ratio of 15 to 1, Mesa Community College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Mesa Community College is 100%. This is higher 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 Mesa Community College is 64%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 16,948 undergraduates at Mesa Community College with 4,975 being full-time and 11,973 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 Mesa Community 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 Mesa Community College, approximately 10% of students took out student loans averaging $3,385 a year. That adds up to $13,540 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Mesa Community College is 11.2%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for Mesa Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1833 W Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ 85202 |
| Phone: | 480-461-7000 |
| Website: | www.mesacc.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, 9,803 students took at least one online class at Mesa Community College. This is a decrease from the 12,040 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 9,803 | 4,709 |
| 2019-2020 | 12,040 | 5,895 |
| 2018-2019 | 7,442 | 3,127 |
| 2017-2018 | 7,123 | 2,903 |
| 2016-2017 | 6,677 | 2,649 |
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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