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.
Sinclair Community College was awarded 428 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is allied health & medical assisting services.
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Sinclair Community College landed the #816 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 is an improvement over the previous year, when Sinclair Community College held the #952 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Sinclair Community College is also ranked #30 out of 96 schools in Ohio.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Sinclair Community College has an open admissions policy. This means that you'll only have to submit basic materials, which may include proof that you completed high school or an equivalent program.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Sinclair Community College, this ratio is 16 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Sinclair Community College is 35%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 78% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Sinclair 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 18,687 undergraduates at Sinclair Community College with 3,919 being full-time and 14,768 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,594 | $4,227 | $6,283 | $7,355 | $8,343 |
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 Sinclair Community 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 Sinclair Community College, approximately 24% of students took out student loans averaging $4,434 a year. That adds up to $17,736 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Sinclair Community College is 7.6%. 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 Sinclair Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 444 W. Third St., Dayton, OH 45402-1460 |
| Phone: | 937-512-3000 |
| Website: | www.sinclair.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Air Transportation | 3 | NA |
| General Biology | 0 | NA |
| Accounting | 0 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 0 | NA |
| Business Support & Assistant Services | 0 | NA |
| Entrepreneurial Studies | 0 | NA |
| Finance & Financial Management | 0 | NA |
| General Business/Commerce | 0 | NA |
| Hospitality Management | 0 | NA |
| Marketing | 0 | NA |
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, 11,594 students took at least one online class at Sinclair Community College. This is a decrease from the 14,941 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 11,594 | 7,879 |
| 2019-2020 | 14,941 | 13,101 |
| 2018-2019 | 7,426 | 3,946 |
| 2017-2018 | 6,929 | 3,572 |
| 2016-2017 | 6,683 | 3,434 |
Learn more about online learning at Sinclair 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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