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Northeast Alabama Community College was awarded 43 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is mechanic & repair technologies.
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Northeast landed the #1,797 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.
Out of the 40 colleges in Alabama, Northeast is ranked at #30.
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If you are worried about getting into Northeast Alabama 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.
The student to faculty ratio at Northeast Alabama Community College is about average at 16 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Northeast Alabama Community 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 Northeast Alabama Community College is 71%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,530 undergraduates at Northeast with 969 being full-time and 1,561 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,906 | $3,489 | $5,132 | $8,672 | $9,200 |
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 Northeast, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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 Northeast, approximately 19% of students took out student loans averaging $3,184 a year. That adds up to $12,736 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Northeast is 15.8%. Watch out! This is significantly higher than the national default rate of 10.1%, which means you could have trouble paying back your student loans if you take any out.
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Contact details for Northeast are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 138 Highway 35, Rainsville, AL 35986 |
| Phone: | 256-638-4418 |
| Website: | https://www.nacc.edu/ |
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, 1,799 students took at least one online class at Northeast Alabama Community College. This is a decrease from the 2,083 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,799 | 756 |
| 2019-2020 | 2,083 | 1,549 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,818 | 558 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,634 | 433 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,411 | 396 |
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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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