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Santa Fe Community College was awarded 49 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is early childhood education.
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College Factual ranked SFCC as #1,658 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when SFCC held the #1,809 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
SFCC also holds the #13 spot on the Best Colleges in New Mexico ranking.
Since Santa Fe Community College has an open admissions policy, being accepted to the school isn't that hard. However, a full basic things - such as a high school diploma or equivalent - may be required. Also, go over your application to make sure it is complete before you submit it.
At SFCC, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 11 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 Santa Fe Community College is 30%. 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 Santa Fe Community College this rate is 52%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,459 undergraduates at SFCC with 759 being full-time and 2,700 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 SFCC, 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 SFCC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $2,969 a year. That adds up to $11,876 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at SFCC is 6.9%. 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 SFCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 6401 Richards Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87508-4887 |
| Phone: | 505-428-1000 |
| Website: | https://www.sfcc.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, 2,185 students took at least one online class at Santa Fe Community College. This is a decrease from the 3,115 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 2,185 | 1,467 |
| 2019-2020 | 3,115 | 2,795 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,360 | 582 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,491 | 658 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,653 | 704 |
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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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