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VHCC landed the #1,995 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 VHCC held the #2,031 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
VHCC is also ranked #55 out of 63 schools in Virginia.
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Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Virginia Highlands 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.
At Virginia Highlands Community College, the student to faculty ratio is 21 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
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 Virginia Highlands Community College is 29%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a measure of what percentage of first-year, full-time students come back for their sophomore year. The 49% rate at Virginia Highlands Community College is a good bit lower than the national rate of 68%. This could be for a number of reasons, such as students transferring after a year because they changed majors.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,086 undergraduates at VHCC with 843 being full-time and 1,243 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 VHCC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At VHCC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $2,681 a year. That adds up to $10,724 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for VHCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 100 Vhcc Drive, Abingdon, VA 24212-0828 |
| Phone: | 276-739-2400 |
| Website: | www.vhcc.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, 1,476 students took at least one online class at Virginia Highlands Community College. This is a decrease from the 1,649 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,476 | 546 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,649 | 1,212 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,352 | 340 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,357 | 370 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,262 | 347 |
Learn more about online learning at Virginia Highlands 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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