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.
Rockingham Community College was awarded 57 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is emergency medical technology/technician (emt paramedic).
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RCC is ranked #1,598 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when RCC held the #1,620 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
RCC is also ranked #53 out of 93 schools in North Carolina.
If you are worried about getting into Rockingham 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 is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at RCC it is much better at 11 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
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 Rockingham Community College is 29%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Rockingham Community College this rate is 56%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,922 undergraduates at RCC with 522 being full-time and 1,400 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 RCC, 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 RCC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $8,000 a year. That adds up to $32,000 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for RCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 215 Wrenn Memorial Road, Wentworth, NC 27375 |
| Phone: | 336-342-4261 |
| Website: | https://www.rockinghamcc.edu/ |
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, 1,260 students took at least one online class at Rockingham Community College. This is a decrease from the 1,907 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,260 | 639 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,907 | 1,866 |
| 2018-2019 | 975 | 246 |
| 2017-2018 | 866 | 251 |
| 2016-2017 | 912 | 262 |
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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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