by our College Data Analytics Team
In 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.
Savannah Technical College was awarded 429 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is vehicle maintenance & repair.
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Savannah Tech is ranked #423 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 Savannah Tech held the #838 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Savannah Tech also holds the #5 spot on the Best Colleges in Georgia ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Savannah Technical 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 15 to 1, Savannah Technical 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.
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 Savannah Technical College is 39%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 48% tells us that most first-year, full-time students don't stick around for a second year at Savannah Technical College. Students may have a variety of reasons for this, such as only intending to attend a school for one year while they brush up on certain subjects.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,649 undergraduates at Savannah Tech with 1,237 being full-time and 2,412 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 Savannah Tech, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
The student loan default rate at Savannah Tech is 11.2%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for Savannah Tech are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5717 White Bluff Rd, Savannah, GA 31405-5594 |
| Phone: | 912-443-5700 |
| Website: | www.savannahtech.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, 2,144 students took at least one online class at Savannah Technical College. This is a decrease from the 2,722 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 2,144 | 1,134 |
| 2019-2020 | 2,722 | 1,570 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,541 | 368 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,632 | 491 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,563 | 464 |
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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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