by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Napa Valley College was awarded 80 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & corrections.
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College Factual ranked Napa Valley College as #1,208 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 Napa Valley College held the #1,430 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Napa Valley College also holds the #130 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Napa Valley College since the school has an open admissions policy. Still, be sure to submit any requested materials and that your application is completed in full.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Napa Valley College, this ratio is 15 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Napa Valley College is 36%. 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 Napa Valley College is 72%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,931 undergraduates at Napa Valley College with 2,085 being full-time and 2,846 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 Napa Valley College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Napa Valley College, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $6,833 a year. That adds up to $27,332 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Napa Valley College is 9.5%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Napa Valley College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy, Napa, CA 94558-6236 |
| Phone: | 707-256-7000 |
| Website: | https://www.napavalley.edu/Pages/default.aspx |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2020-2021, 3,729 students took at least one online class at Napa Valley College. This is a decrease from the 4,605 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 3,729 | 2,794 |
| 2019-2020 | 4,605 | 4,184 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,720 | 484 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,529 | 458 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,488 | 436 |
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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