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.
Salt Lake Community College was awarded 435 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is computer & information sciences.
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Salt Lake Community College is ranked #677 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 Salt Lake Community College held the #757 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Salt Lake Community College also holds the #8 spot on the Best Colleges in Utah ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Salt Lake 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.
With a student to faculty ratio of 17 to 1, Salt Lake Community College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Salt Lake Community College is 23%. 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 Salt Lake Community College this rate is 55%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 27,293 undergraduates at Salt Lake Community College with 6,860 being full-time and 20,433 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,129 | $5,780 | $7,366 | $9,594 | $10,816 |
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 Salt Lake Community 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 Salt Lake Community College, approximately 12% of students took out student loans averaging $3,212 a year. That adds up to $12,848 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Salt Lake Community College is 9.4%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Salt Lake Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 4600 S Redwood Rd, Salt Lake City, UT 84123 |
| Phone: | 801-957-4111 |
| Website: | www.slcc.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, 12,894 students took at least one online class at Salt Lake Community College. This is a decrease from the 13,194 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 12,894 | 6,346 |
| 2019-2020 | 13,194 | 4,747 |
| 2018-2019 | 9,132 | 3,736 |
| 2017-2018 | 8,793 | 3,467 |
| 2016-2017 | 8,963 | 3,382 |
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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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