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Nevada State College Data & Information Overview

38 awards Ranking Badges
Fair Price Value for Your Money
79% Acceptance Rate
Find out more about how Nevada State College ranks, how diverse it is, what majors it offers, and other essential facts below.
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How Well Is Nevada State College Ranked?

#1,297 Best Colleges in Nation
#4 Best Colleges in NV
Criminal Justice Highest Ranked Major

2024 Rankings

College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.

Nevada State College was awarded 38 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice.

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Overall Quality

NSC is ranked #1,297 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list.

NSC also holds the #4 spot on the Best Colleges in Nevada ranking.

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Is It Hard to Get Into NSC?

79% Acceptance Rate
76% Of Accepted Are Women

Acceptance Rate

The acceptance rate at Nevada State College is 79%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that NSC is a good fit for you.

Learn more about Nevada State College admissions.

Nevada State College Faculty

18 to 1 Student to Faculty
100% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

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 Nevada State College, this ratio is 18 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

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 Nevada State College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  100 out of 100
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Retention and Graduation Rates at Nevada State College

76% Freshmen Retention
6% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate of 76% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Nevada State 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.

Freshmen Retention Rate  76 out of 100
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Graduation Rate

When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at NSC is 6%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%

On-Time Graduation Rate  6 out of 100
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100

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Nevada State College Undergraduate Student Diversity

2,079 Full-Time Undergraduates
69.5% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
80.5% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,218 undergraduates at NSC with 2,079 being full-time and 5,139 being part-time.

How Much Does Nevada State College Cost?

$12,478 Net Price
15% Take Out Loans
$20,872 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of NSC is $12,478. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for NSC

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$11,328 $11,622 $13,229 $16,730 $19,245

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 NSC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At NSC, approximately 15% of students took out student loans averaging $5,218 a year. That adds up to $20,872 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at NSC is 4.0%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

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How Much Money Do NSC Graduates Make?

$54,006 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
The pay for some majors is higher than others, but on average, students who graduate with a bachelor's degree from NSC make about $54,006 a year during their first few years of employment after graduation. This is good news for future NSC graduates since it is 27% more than the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year.

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Location of Nevada State College

Nevada State
2,079 Full-Time Undergraduates
Rural Campus Setting
Nevada State College is a public institution situated in Henderson, Nevada. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of NSC.

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Contact details for NSC are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 1300 Nevada State Drive, Henderson, NV 89002
Phone: 702-992-2000
Website: https://nsc.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NevadaStateCollege
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NevadaState

Nevada State College Majors

23 Majors With Completions
778 Undergraduate Degrees
2 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 23 majors graduated from Nevada State College. Of these students, 778 received undergraduate degrees and 2 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Nursing 348 $70,550
General Psychology 105 $28,747
Business Administration & Management 62 $44,875
Criminal Justice & Corrections 62 $37,265
Teacher Education Grade Specific 43 $43,172
General Biology 24 $28,070
Communication Sciences 21 $45,525
Special Education 19 NA
Interdisciplinary Studies 17 NA
History 14 $40,061

Learn more about the majors offered at Nevada State College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at NSC

38% Take At Least One Class Online
11% Take All Classes Online

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, 2,746 students took at least one online class at Nevada State College. This is a decrease from the 2,923 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2020-2021 2,746 777
2019-2020 2,923 1,170
2018-2019 3,596 952
2017-2018 2,508 879
2016-2017 1,758 407

Learn more about online learning at Nevada State College.

Notes and References

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.

References

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