by our College Data Analytics Team
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Southwestern College was awarded 46 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business administration & management.
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College Factual ranked SWC Chula Vista as #120 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when SWC Chula Vista held the #295 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
SWC Chula Vista also holds the #15 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Southwestern 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 at Southwestern College is 22 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
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 Southwestern College is 30%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
Southwestern College has a freshmen retention rate of 75%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 17,621 undergraduates at SWC Chula Vista with 6,403 being full-time and 11,218 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,757 | $10,747 | $13,956 | $16,286 | $11,770 |
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 SWC Chula Vista, 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 SWC Chula Vista, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $3,419 a year. That adds up to $13,676 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for SWC Chula Vista are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 900 Otay Lakes Rd., Chula Vista, CA 91910-7299 |
| Phone: | 619-421-6700 |
| Website: | https://www.swccd.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 620 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 248 | NA |
| General Psychology | 231 | NA |
| Health Sciences & Services | 157 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 150 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 110 | NA |
| Human Development & Family Studies | 98 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 90 | NA |
| Accounting | 75 | NA |
| Sociology | 65 | 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 2022-2023, 10,149 students took at least one online class at Southwestern College. This is an increase from the 9,981 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 10,149 | 4,283 |
| 2021-2022 | 9,981 | 4,457 |
| 2020-2021 | 7,659 | 2,470 |
| 2018-2019 | 6,314 | 1,814 |
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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