by our College Data Analytics TeamIn its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Sandhills Community College was awarded 8 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is pre-nursing studies.
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SCC is ranked #1,483 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 SCC held the #1,754 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 93 colleges in North Carolina, SCC is ranked at #47.
Sandhills Community College has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
The student to faculty ratio at Sandhills Community College is about average at 13 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.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Sandhills Community College is 26%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 77% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Sandhills Community College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,990 undergraduates at SCC with 1,148 being full-time and 2,842 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 SCC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At SCC, approximately 4% of students took out student loans averaging $9,526 a year. That adds up to $38,104 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for SCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3395 Airport Rd, Pinehurst, NC 28374 |
| Phone: | 910-692-6185 |
| Website: | www.sandhills.edu/ |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2020-2021, 3,143 students took at least one online class at Sandhills Community College. This is a decrease from the 3,561 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 3,143 | 1,715 |
| 2019-2020 | 3,561 | 2,211 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,464 | 785 |
| 2017-2018 | 2,445 | 665 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,308 | 593 |
Learn more about online learning at Sandhills Community College.
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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