by our College Data Analytics Team
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.
Saddleback College was awarded 322 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health sciences & services.
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Saddleback College landed the #261 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. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Saddleback College held the #422 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Saddleback College also holds the #44 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Saddleback 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 at Saddleback College is 25 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
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 Saddleback College is 28%. 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 Saddleback College is 71%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 18,984 undergraduates at Saddleback College with 5,621 being full-time and 13,363 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4,091 | $5,910 | $8,081 | $10,888 | $10,166 |
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 Saddleback College, 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 Saddleback College, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $5,908 a year. That adds up to $23,632 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Saddleback College is 8.7%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for Saddleback College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 28000 Marguerite Pky, Mission Viejo, CA 92692-3635 |
| Phone: | 949-582-4500 |
| Website: | www.saddleback.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, 14,243 students took at least one online class at Saddleback College. This is a decrease from the 16,882 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 14,243 | 8,439 |
| 2019-2020 | 16,882 | 10,880 |
| 2018-2019 | 11,558 | 6,093 |
| 2017-2018 | 10,539 | 5,475 |
| 2016-2017 | 9,675 | 4,979 |
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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