by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Ventura College was awarded 441 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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College Factual ranked Ventura College as #927 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 Ventura College held the #1,089 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Ventura College also holds the #117 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
Ventura 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 Ventura College is 24 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 Ventura College is 39%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 75% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Ventura 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 11,789 undergraduates at Ventura College with 3,383 being full-time and 8,406 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $321 | $1,269 | $4,076 | $5,644 | $6,257 |
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 Ventura 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 Ventura College, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $4,660 a year. That adds up to $18,640 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Ventura College is 12.1%. 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 Ventura College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 4667 Telegraph Rd, Ventura, CA 93003-3872 |
| Phone: | 805-654-6400 |
| Website: | www.venturacollege.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, 9,762 students took at least one online class at Ventura College. This is an increase from the 9,359 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 9,762 | 6,962 |
| 2019-2020 | 9,359 | 4,948 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,092 | 2,214 |
| 2017-2018 | 5,169 | 2,215 |
| 2016-2017 | 4,251 | 1,801 |
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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