by our College Data Analytics Team
College 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.
Rend Lake College was awarded 12 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is multi / interdisciplinary studies.
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College Factual ranked Rend Lake College as #1,188 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
Rend Lake College is also ranked #47 out of 85 schools in Illinois.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Rend Lake 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 as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At Rend Lake College, this rate is 19 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
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 Rend Lake College is 72%. 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 Rend Lake College is 65%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,802 undergraduates at Rend Lake College with 950 being full-time and 852 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 Rend Lake 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 Rend Lake College, approximately 3% of students took out student loans averaging $3,509 a year. That adds up to $14,036 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Rend Lake College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 468 N Ken Gray Pkwy, Ina, IL 62846 |
| Phone: | 618-437-5321 |
| Website: | www.rlc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 310 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 184 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 116 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 70 | NA |
| Vehicle Maintenance & Repair | 70 | NA |
| Precision Metal Working | 67 | NA |
| Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance | 59 | NA |
| Ground Transportation | 54 | NA |
| General Business/Commerce | 53 | NA |
| Nursing | 43 | NA |
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 2022-2023, 1,020 students took at least one online class at Rend Lake College. This is an increase from the 958 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,020 | 164 |
| 2021-2022 | 958 | 168 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,295 | 517 |
| 2018-2019 | 668 | 93 |
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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